{"id":11977,"date":"2012-08-26T06:21:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T14:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11977"},"modified":"2012-08-26T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T18:30:47","slug":"for-sunday-watch-christine-fellows-sing-vertebrae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-08\/for-sunday-watch-christine-fellows-sing-vertebrae\/","title":{"rendered":"For Sunday: Watch Christine Fellows Sing &#8220;Vertebrae&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>None other than the <a href=\"http:\/\/stereogum.com\/1134241\/turntable-interview-the-mountain-goats\/franchises\/turntable-interview\/\"><strong>Mountain Goats&#8217; John Darnielle recently touted<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Christine Fellows&#8217;<\/strong> devastating song, <em><strong>Vertebrae<\/strong><\/em> [Full disclosure:\u00a0 <strong>Darnielle<\/strong> also touted <strong>Amy Grant&#8217;s <em>Out in the Open<\/em><\/strong> and <strong>Chris Rice&#8217;s <em>Calling Out Your Name<\/em><\/strong>&#8211;nonetheless&#8230;.].\u00a0 Darnielle called Vertebrae &#8220;the cryingest song ever,&#8221; and we can&#8217;t disagree.\u00a0 For those that have lost parents or loved ones recently (or not), check out her performance of the song at the annual (New Bruswick, Canada) <a href=\"http:\/\/sappyfest.com\/SappyFest_12\/\"><strong>Sappyfest<\/strong><\/a> below.\u00a0 The lyrics follow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christine Fellows - Vertebrae; Sappyfest 7\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HpSwFxOqDDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Christine Fellows<\/strong>&#8212;<em><strong>Vertebrae<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A photo essay of a family in mourning<br \/>\nperforated ever so slightly to better let the lights<br \/>\nseep through<br \/>\nSunday traffic clears a path<br \/>\nwe float inches above the road<br \/>\nclose our eyes and drive so slow<br \/>\nlike we never need to get home<\/p>\n<p>To clear the doorstep of flowers<br \/>\nthrow open the blinds in his empty room<br \/>\navert our eyes from his fingerprints<br \/>\nis there something I&#8217;m forgetting?<\/p>\n<p>fall to my knees in the hospital parking lot<br \/>\non the way in, arms full of branches<br \/>\nI am dead fall, dead fall<br \/>\nLast time I came here to visit him<br \/>\nI ran sunburn through the halls<br \/>\nmy arms full of tiger lilies<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t remember this<br \/>\nI was told to go home<\/p>\n<p>To clear the doorstep of flowers<br \/>\nthrow open the blinds in his empty room<br \/>\navert my eyes from his fingerprints<br \/>\nis there something I&#8217;m forgetting?<\/p>\n<p>(Why, when you know you should go, is it so hard to<br \/>\nleave?)<\/p>\n<p>Came this far to say goodbye, to make things right<br \/>\ninstead I fiddle with his blankets<br \/>\nfetching coffee no one would drink<br \/>\nI am not prepared<br \/>\nThrough the hush of debts and the roar of engines<br \/>\nstruggled to recall, this is how it ended<br \/>\nthis is how it ends<\/p>\n<p>Home,<br \/>\nturn the key in the door and fall<br \/>\nfor what it seems like an awfully long time<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s something I&#8217;m both remembering and forgetting<br \/>\na name on the tip of my tongue&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None other than the Mountain Goats&#8217; John Darnielle recently touted Christine Fellows&#8217; devastating song, Vertebrae [Full disclosure:\u00a0 Darnielle also touted Amy Grant&#8217;s Out in the Open and Chris Rice&#8217;s Calling Out Your Name&#8211;nonetheless&#8230;.].\u00a0 Darnielle called Vertebrae &#8220;the cryingest song ever,&#8221; and we can&#8217;t disagree.\u00a0 For those that have lost parents or loved ones recently (or [&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-11977","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\/11977","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=11977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}