{"id":107,"date":"2026-05-07T19:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/?p=107"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:32:13","slug":"state-of-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/2026\/05\/07\/state-of-misery\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Misery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"State of Misery by Lobster Optimus Ltd\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2251576211&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notes:<br>I just had this idea for a simple guitar progression and I started recording it. John wrote lyrics while I was recording parts for it. We decided to keep this one simple. Acoustic guitar, a bit of keyboards and vocals. The flute lead section I came up with after John had left. I spend some time tweaking it (Ah, the beauty of MIDI) and it came out perfect. If you were wondering, the lead is a flute on one side and a pan flute (Zamfir!) on the other. When I listen to it I can imagine the person playing the flute. This song came together real quick. Sometimes the best stuff goes quickly.<br>The subject matter is completely fictitious.<br>Jeff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics by John Lister<br>She came to me in a state of misery and what could I say, what could I say<br>Her man was messin\u2019 around with every bad girl in town, what could I say<br>Her tears ran upon her face like flowers dripping in a vase,<br>I gave her all my sympathy, she splashed her love all over me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Bill was my friend and I will say it once again, but what will he say<br>I stepped in some wrong and now I sing him this song, but what will he say<br>When he finds that I two- timed and played with his jealous mind<br>He\u2019ll shoot me full of holes and lose all his controls all over me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Well now come to find I\u2019m not the only one two- timed, but what can I say<br>She has another man and she will find one once again, but what can I say,<br>Bill and I we\u2019re friends again and that is the best medicine<br>Forget what the women did by keeping her heart so firmly hid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes:I just had this idea for a simple guitar progression and I started recording it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1st"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}