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Given that, there\u2019s an obvious song choice for this mystery\u2013but all of you already know it. The world and his wife already knows the greatness of \u201c Fairytale in New York<\/a>,\u201d I mean babes yet a-bornin\u2019 are in the womb mouthing, \u201cYou\u2019re a bum, you\u2019re a punk! You\u2019re an old slut on junk!\u201d So you don\u2019t need me for that.<\/p>\n

Instead I figured I\u2019d post a song I really like, which captures that ironic ambivalence I think a lot of us have toward the \u201cOld Country\u201d of our sins. It\u2019s hard to love a new life, even if you\u2019d fallen out of love with your old one. A bit of thanatostalgia<\/a>, a bit of remembering the good times (or the great and terrible times), a bit of feeling lost in paradise and home in the other place.<\/p>\n

WHERE, WHERE HAVE THEY GONE, WHERE? I SEE NOTHING BUT FLOWERS!<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=068AFYvd58E<\/a>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"