{"id":2001,"date":"2023-01-20T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/?page_id=2001"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:16:23","slug":"if-i-had-to-leave-today","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/?page_id=2001","title":{"rendered":"If I Had to Leave Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">If I Had to Leave Today<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><br \/>(Mike McCornack) September 28, 2021<\/p>\n<p><br \/>If I had to leave today, what would I take with me?<br \/>If I had to leave today from my home?<br \/>If somebody came to say, \u201cyou ain\u2019t got time &#8211; come with me\u201d,<br \/>What would I take away from my home?<\/p>\n<p>If I had to leave this place, where would I go to?<br \/>If I had to leave this place, that&#8217;s my home?<br \/>If I knew that it was the case, there\u2019d be nothing to come home to,<br \/>How could I leave this place that\u2019s my home?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">No time for discussion, no bargain to be made,<br \/>No appeal to reason, no ransom to be paid.<br \/>The facts are hard and simple, the choices swift and stark,<br \/>Take what you can carry and drive off through the dark.<\/p>\n<p>When I have to leave this life, what will I leave behind me?<br \/>When I have to leave this life and move on?<br \/>Will I vanish without a trace, no sound or echo?<br \/>Will there be anybody knows that I\u2019m gone?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">No time for discussion, no bargain to be made,<br \/>No appeal to reason, no ransom to be paid.<br \/>The facts are hard and simple, the choices swift and stark,<br \/>Leave it all behind you and slip into the dark.<\/p>\n<p>You know that I hope and pray, that all of us are delivered<br \/>Away from the flood and fire and the wind.<br \/>And if something I do today can improve our chances,<br \/>I think that it\u2019s probably time to begin.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to leave today, what would I take with me?<br \/>If I had to leave today from my home?<br \/>Would I vanish without a trace, no sound or echo?<br \/>If I had to leave today from my home.<br \/>If I had to leave today from my home.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a9 <em>2021 Mike McCornack\/McTate Music. All rights reserved.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I Had to Leave Today (Mike McCornack) September 28, 2021 If I had to leave today, what would I take with me?If I had to leave today from my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page_fullwidth.php","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2001","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenvarietymusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}