{"id":10033,"date":"2012-03-27T00:35:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T08:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=10033"},"modified":"2012-03-27T06:41:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T14:41:04","slug":"overcome-with-light-the-bowerbirds-on-wnyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-03\/overcome-with-light-the-bowerbirds-on-wnyc\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Overcome With Light&#8221;&#8211;The Bowerbirds on WNYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-03\/bowerbirds-new-video-and-album\/\"><strong>recently been bowled over<\/strong><\/a> by <strong>The Bowerbirds<\/strong>.\u00a0 They showed up on <strong>WNYC<\/strong> the other day and played their inspiriting song, <em><strong>Overcome With Light<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 &#8220;And my worries then, were not grand, but I felt them like a hammer pounding&#8230;Now I&#8217;m overcome with light.&#8221;\u00a0 Indeed.\u00a0 Amongst others in this great genre, we find a lyric parallel in <strong>Robert Nesta Marley<\/strong> who sang:\u00a0 &#8220;Forget your troubles and dance.&#8221;\u00a0 There&#8217;s no bad time for a reminder that better times always lie ahead.\u00a0 Go ahead.\u00a0 Be overcome with light.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xgGWsbTKgoQ&#038;feature=uploademail<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Overcome With Light<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And how I know I&#8217;m happy now<br \/>\nI jump right down the shoots of time<br \/>\nAnd yes the weather was not always grey<br \/>\nBut the furrow always graced my brow<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m overcome with light, overcome with light<br \/>\nOvercome with light, overcome with light<br \/>\nYes we had some hard work but now it&#8217;s right<br \/>\nOvercome with light, overcome<\/p>\n<p>And my worries then, were not grand<br \/>\nBut I felt them like a hammer pounding<br \/>\nLike I really feel, feel them now<br \/>\nAnd in the page, I know I&#8217;m dreaming<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m overcome with light, overcome with light<br \/>\nOvercome with light, overcome with light<br \/>\nYes we had some screams but now it&#8217;s right<br \/>\nOvercome with light, overcome<br \/>\nOvercome with light, overcome with light<br \/>\nOvercome &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve recently been bowled over by The Bowerbirds.\u00a0 They showed up on WNYC the other day and played their inspiriting song, Overcome With Light.\u00a0 &#8220;And my worries then, were not grand, but I felt them like a hammer pounding&#8230;Now I&#8217;m overcome with light.&#8221;\u00a0 Indeed.\u00a0 Amongst others in this great genre, we find a lyric parallel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}