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		<title>Stop Awhile</title>
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		<description>Do you ever really listen to the lyrics of a song? Well let’s take the music away and see if we can figure out what the artist is trying to say.</description>
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		<copyright>&#xA9; 2026 Stop Awhile</copyright>
		<itunes:subtitle>A weekly podcast looking at songs as spoken word to try and understand what the story the artist was trying to tell, plus some reflections from me</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:author>Stop Awhile</itunes:author>
				<itunes:summary>Do you ever really listen to the lyrics of a song? Well let’s take the music away and see if we can figure out what the artist is trying to say.</itunes:summary>
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		<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
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			<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Where Do You Go To My Lovely</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 06:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Peter Sarstedt wrote this when busking in Copenhagen. It’s not about anyone in particular and has a simple message. It doesn’t matter how many airs or graces you have in your life, you can take the girl out of the bog but you can’t take the bog out of the girl.]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Peter Sarstedt wrote this when busking in Copenhagen. It’s not about anyone in particular and has a simple message. It doesn’t matter how many airs or graces you have in your life, you can take the girl out of the bog but you can’t take the bog out of th]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[Peter Sarstedt wrote this when busking in Copenhagen. It’s not about anyone in particular and has a simple message. It doesn’t matter how many airs or graces you have in your life, you can take the girl out of the bog but you can’t take the bog out of the girl.]]></content:encoded>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Peter Sarstedt wrote this when busking in Copenhagen. It’s not about anyone in particular and has a simple message. It doesn’t matter how many airs or graces you have in your life, you can take the girl out of the bog but you can’t take the bog out of the girl.]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>06:32</itunes:duration>
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				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Like A Rolling Stone</title>
	<link>https://stopawhile.uk/podcast/like-a-rolling-stone/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2022 06:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stop Awhile]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[This is one of the songs Dylan wrote about Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol’s film muse. She was a trust fund girl with mental health issues and craved fame. She had a fortune when she arrived in New York in 1964 age 21. After her 15 minutes of fame she was discarded by Warhol. 6 years [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This is one of the songs Dylan wrote about Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol’s film muse. She was a trust fund girl with mental health issues and craved fame. She had a fortune when she arrived in New York in 1964 age 21. After her 15 minutes of fame she was di]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is one of the songs Dylan wrote about Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol’s film muse. She was a trust fund girl with mental health issues and craved fame. She had a fortune when she arrived in New York in 1964 age 21. After her 15 minutes of fame she was discarded by Warhol. 6 years [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This is one of the songs Dylan wrote about Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol’s film muse. She was a trust fund girl with mental health issues and craved fame. She had a fortune when she arrived in New York in 1964 age 21. After her 15 minutes of fame she was discarded by Warhol. 6 years [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
			<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>08:22</itunes:duration>
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				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>My Land Is So Green</title>
	<link>https://stopawhile.uk/podcast/my-land-is-so-green/</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2022 06:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stop Awhile]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[Ireland is the land of forty shades of green. However, this song speaks to the green of naivety of the people to the hypocrisy of both church and state. A church which colluded with a government to sweep scandals under the carpet. A country where a 14 year old died giving birth in a field [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Ireland is the land of forty shades of green. However, this song speaks to the green of naivety of the people to the hypocrisy of both church and state. A church which colluded with a government to sweep scandals under the carpet. A country where a 14 ye]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ireland is the land of forty shades of green. However, this song speaks to the green of naivety of the people to the hypocrisy of both church and state. A church which colluded with a government to sweep scandals under the carpet. A country where a 14 year old died giving birth in a field [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ireland is the land of forty shades of green. However, this song speaks to the green of naivety of the people to the hypocrisy of both church and state. A church which colluded with a government to sweep scandals under the carpet. A country where a 14 year old died giving birth in a field [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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		<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>7:03</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Stop Awhile]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Ireland is the land of forty shades of green. However, this song speaks to the green of naivety of the people to the hypocrisy of both church and state. A church which colluded with a government to sweep scandals under the carpet. A country where a 14 year old died giving birth in a field [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
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				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Missing You</title>
	<link>https://stopawhile.uk/podcast/missing-you/</link>
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2022 14:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stop Awhile]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[We all want our lives to be better. If we can stay near where we live and have a decent job and life then we would stay around. However, over many decades Irish men and women have left the island to earn a living and then finding out that the streets of London are not [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[We all want our lives to be better. If we can stay near where we live and have a decent job and life then we would stay around. However, over many decades Irish men and women have left the island to earn a living and then finding out that the streets of ]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[We all want our lives to be better. If we can stay near where we live and have a decent job and life then we would stay around. However, over many decades Irish men and women have left the island to earn a living and then finding out that the streets of London are not [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[We all want our lives to be better. If we can stay near where we live and have a decent job and life then we would stay around. However, over many decades Irish men and women have left the island to earn a living and then finding out that the streets of London are not [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Missing You</title>
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		<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>8:38</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[Stop Awhile]]></itunes:author>		<googleplay:description><![CDATA[We all want our lives to be better. If we can stay near where we live and have a decent job and life then we would stay around. However, over many decades Irish men and women have left the island to earn a living and then finding out that the streets of London are not [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
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				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>On Raglan Road</title>
	<link>https://stopawhile.uk/podcast/28/</link>
	<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2022 14:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stop Awhile]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[A short pause to hear a reading of On Raglan Road and a little bit of the story which I wanted to share. ]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A short pause to hear a reading of On Raglan Road and a little bit of the story which I wanted to share. ]]></itunes:subtitle>
								<content:encoded><![CDATA[A short pause to hear a reading of On Raglan Road and a little bit of the story which I wanted to share. ]]></content:encoded>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A short pause to hear a reading of On Raglan Road and a little bit of the story which I wanted to share. ]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>On Raglan Road</title>
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		<itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>3:20</itunes:duration>
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				<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
		<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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