{"id":907,"date":"2017-01-09T21:10:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/?p=907"},"modified":"2017-01-09T21:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T21:42:34","slug":"these-three-rooms-the-story-behind-the-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/2017\/01\/09\/these-three-rooms-the-story-behind-the-song\/","title":{"rendered":"These Three Rooms &#8211; The story behind the song"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"470\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=411646872\/album=1411039729\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-908\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes.jpg?resize=676%2C507&amp;ssl=1 676w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A love song to poverty or those three rooms in South Edinburgh..our tiny flat&#8230;we somehow survived two years in and were still together. It took Oxford and a bigger flat and more money to split us up&#8230;.c&#8217;est la vie.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to this again I can taste the dust and hear the cars but it was a beautiful city which kept us going..62 Causewayside picture on right..third floor right hand side..that the one..three windows and three rooms twenty feet across at most..another world..recorded all these songs in the tiny bedroom on left.<\/p>\n<p>Had a cassette tape collection ( photos on blog link below) as could not bring vinyl and no cds. Taped off library stock which was excellent my taste formed by the Central library Edinburgh folk and blues stock \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>These Three Rooms<\/p>\n<p>These three rooms are worn and badly lit<br \/>\nDecorated with paint inches thick<br \/>\nAnd behind curtains where the dust sits<br \/>\nThe frames rattle, never made to fit<\/p>\n<p>Stay with me through the night<br \/>\nStay with me until the morning light<br \/>\nAnd you will see these three rooms shine<\/p>\n<p>The carpets are dull and tenant-stained<br \/>\nMaybe they were brighter in better days<br \/>\nNow the lino slides across the floor<br \/>\nAnd the bathroom paper\u2019s peeling off the wall<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me all the poverty I bring<br \/>\nThis cheap box, this bed and sink<br \/>\nHold fast now like these plants that cling<br \/>\nTo our windowsill as they twist and jink<\/p>\n<p>Trust me when I sat things will improve<br \/>\nThat these are not our destined views<br \/>\nAs these three plants outgrow this room<br \/>\nSo this small flat will be outgrown too<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the tapes I recorded off library material..still got them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-911\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes2.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes2.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes2.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes2.jpg?resize=676%2C507&amp;ssl=1 676w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes2.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-913\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes3-1.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes3-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes3-1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes3-1.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes3-1.jpg?resize=676%2C507&amp;ssl=1 676w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/tapes3-1.jpg?w=1215&amp;ssl=1 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A love song to poverty or those three rooms in South Edinburgh..our tiny flat&#8230;we somehow survived two years in and were still together. It took Oxford and a bigger flat and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,34,1,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cassette-tape","category-edinburgh","category-song","category-story-behind-the-song"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7DCHF-eD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}