{"id":3334,"date":"2025-08-28T17:34:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:34:22","slug":"dont-go-back-to-the-way-we-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/dont-go-back-to-the-way-we-were\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Go Back to the Way We Were"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Tune: Beatles\u2019 Back in the U.S.S.R.                                                                                  Lyrics: Jo-Hanna Read.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Verse 1]<br>Sit in my apartment on a Friday night<br>Thinking of these COVID blues<br>Wondrin\u2019 if the world can ever come out right<br>Can we take this chance to choose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Hook]<br>Don\u2019t go back to the way we were<br>Now\u2019s our chance for a whole new start, folks<br>Don\u2019t go back to the way we were (yeah)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Verse 2]<br>Been at home so long, we hardly drove our cars<br>Gee, it&#8217;s good to see the sky<br>Even see the Milky Way and all those stars<br>It\u2019s enough to make you sigh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Hook]<br>Don\u2019t go back to the way we were<br>Now\u2019s our chance for a whole new start, folks<br>Don\u2019t go back to the way we were (yeah)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>{Verse 3]<br>Open up the prisons, let the people out.<br>Find a way to feed the poor.<br>Medicare for all, it should be all about.<br>Black lives matter, kill no more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Hook]<br>Don\u2019t go back to the way we were<br>Now\u2019s our chance for a whole new start, folks<br>Don\u2019t go back to the way we were (yeah)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Bridge]<br>Well, that virus came and really knocked us out<br>Opened up our eyes<br>Killed the poor, the weak, the old, a rout<br>And brought our country too its knee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ees<br>Oh, come on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Hook]<br>Don\u2019t go back to the way we were<br>Now\u2019s our chance for a whole new start, folks<br>Don\u2019t go back to the way<br>Don\u2019t go back to the way<br>Don\u2019t go back to the way<br>Don\u2019t go back to the way we were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tune: Beatles\u2019 Back in the U.S.S.R. Lyrics: Jo-Hanna Read. [Verse 1]Sit in my apartment on a Friday nightThinking of these COVID bluesWondrin\u2019 if the world can ever come out rightCan we take this chance to choose? [Hook]Don\u2019t go back to the way we wereNow\u2019s our chance for a whole new start, folksDon\u2019t go back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,27],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}