{"id":15995,"date":"2013-04-01T16:16:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T00:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=15995"},"modified":"2013-04-01T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T00:16:47","slug":"watch-mates-of-state-perform-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-04\/watch-mates-of-state-perform-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Mates of State Perform &#8220;Desire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-09\/mates-of-state-on-top-of-the-covers\/\"><strong>We are long-time fans<\/strong><\/a> of husband-and-wife duo <a href=\"http:\/\/matesofstate.com\/\"><strong>Mates of State<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 They repeatedly craft perfect pop songs that deftly dissect the ins and outs of relationships.\u00a0 In the past (including the recent past) their highly-recommended albums, <strong>Bring it Back<\/strong> and <strong>Re-Arrange Us<\/strong>, have refused to leave our rebellious jukebox. \u00a0 The duo recently recorded a session for <strong>Audio-Files<\/strong> that will be broadcast tonight and tomorrow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byutv.org\/show\/ae7ef399-a9ee-48ac-99b1-9c22ad9bd12e\/audio-files?airdates=true\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The band and <strong>Audio-Files<\/strong> have released a tremulous trailer of the duo performing their intimate song <em><strong>Desire<\/strong><\/em> <em>(<\/em>lyrics at bottom) off of their critically-acclaimed 2011 album <strong>Mountaintops<\/strong>.\u00a0 With the song&#8217;s private-conversation lyrics and the singers&#8217; knowing looks, you might feel the need to look away.\u00a0 But you can&#8217;t.\u00a0 Shyness is overrated.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aJW5fBad3WA\" height=\"400\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Desire<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Someday you&#8217;ll feel<br \/>\nthe way I feel<br \/>\nand though you might be brighter<br \/>\nyou will not be shy again<br \/>\nOoo, desire<\/p>\n<p>Lying in a quiet back room<br \/>\nCareful &#8217;cause the house could crack soon<br \/>\nAnd in the morning we can play this game<br \/>\nAll the nights you masqueraded<\/p>\n<p>But today you feel<br \/>\nSo you made me wiser<br \/>\nI will not be shy again<br \/>\nOoo, desire<br \/>\nDesire<\/p>\n<p>Someday I will feel the way you feel<br \/>\nand though I might be brighter<br \/>\nI will not be shy again<br \/>\nDesire<br \/>\nDesire&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are long-time fans of husband-and-wife duo Mates of State.\u00a0 They repeatedly craft perfect pop songs that deftly dissect the ins and outs of relationships.\u00a0 In the past (including the recent past) their highly-recommended albums, Bring it Back and Re-Arrange Us, have refused to leave our rebellious jukebox. \u00a0 The duo recently recorded a session [&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-15995","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\/15995","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=15995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}