{"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 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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 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