{"id":14952,"date":"2013-01-29T07:26:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14952"},"modified":"2013-01-29T07:27:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:27:33","slug":"we-should-watch-david-byrne-and-st-vincent-on-tv-last-night-on-late-night-with-letterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/we-should-watch-david-byrne-and-st-vincent-on-tv-last-night-on-late-night-with-letterman\/","title":{"rendered":"We Should Watch David Byrne and St. Vincent on TV (Last Night On Late Night With Letterman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The collaboration between <strong>David Byrne<\/strong> and <strong>St. Vincent<\/strong> continued last night on the <strong>Letterman Show<\/strong>.\u00a0 The artists and their big band reeled off the best song, <em><strong>I Should Watch TV<\/strong><\/em>, off of their album from last year <strong>Love This Giant<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Byrne<\/strong> has said the following about the song that was inspired by <strong>Walt Whitman&#8217;s<\/strong> poem <strong>Song For Myself<\/strong>:\u00a0 &#8220;In the poem, he begins by talking about himself and then extrapolates outward: &#8216;I am multitudes, I am everybody, everybody is in me, I love everybody.&#8217;\u00a0 He talks about people he sees on the street, the people he sees in Brooklyn, in New Jersey, and on and on&#8211; how he&#8217;s in all of them and they&#8217;re all in him.\u00a0 That&#8217;s taking the idea of watching other peoples&#8217; lives on television to a more cosmic place.&#8221;\u00a0 Check out <strong>David Byrne<\/strong> at his theatrical best with horns and band killin&#8217; below.\u00a0 The song&#8217;s lyrics follow the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NFsqP7ENcMQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to think that I should watch TV<br \/>\nI used to think that it was good for me<br \/>\nWanted to know what folks were thinking<br \/>\nTo understand the land I live in<br \/>\nAnd I would lose myself<br \/>\nAnd it would set me free<\/p>\n<p>This is the place where common people go<br \/>\nA global franchise; one department store<br \/>\nYes, there were many awkward moments<br \/>\nI had to do some self-atonement<br \/>\nWell, if I opened up<br \/>\nWell, it would set me free<\/p>\n<p>I know, I like<br \/>\nBehold and love this giant<br \/>\nBig soul, big lips<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s me and I am this<br \/>\nEverybody is a touched up hairdo<br \/>\nEverybody&#8217;s in the passing lane<br \/>\nHad a reason that she touched all channels<br \/>\nThe weird things that live in there<\/p>\n<p>I took a walk down to the park today<br \/>\nI wrote a song called &#8216;Just Like You and Me&#8217;<br \/>\nI heard the jokes from the sports reporter<br \/>\nThe rival teams when they faced each other<br \/>\nThe more I lost myself,<br \/>\nThe more it set me free<\/p>\n<p>How am I not your brother<br \/>\nHow are you not like me<br \/>\nEverybody&#8217;s in the hotel lobby<br \/>\nI&#8217;m living in here, yes I am<br \/>\nI feel it moving in my arms and fingers<br \/>\nTouch me, Feel happy<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to lose and it&#8217;s good to win sometimes<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s good to die and it&#8217;s good be alive<br \/>\nMaybe someday we can stand together<br \/>\nNot afraid of what we see<br \/>\nMaybe someday understand them better<br \/>\nThe weird things inside of me&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collaboration between David Byrne and St. Vincent continued last night on the Letterman Show.\u00a0 The artists and their big band reeled off the best song, I Should Watch TV, off of their album from last year Love This Giant.\u00a0 Byrne has said the following about the song that was inspired by Walt Whitman&#8217;s poem [&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-14952","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\/14952","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=14952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}