{"id":16347,"date":"2013-04-24T06:26:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=16347"},"modified":"2013-04-24T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T23:31:13","slug":"watch-phenomenal-performance-by-phosphorescent-on-fallon-of-song-for-zula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-04\/watch-phenomenal-performance-by-phosphorescent-on-fallon-of-song-for-zula\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Phenomenal Performance By Phosphorescent On Fallon Of &#8220;Song For Zula&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-06\/please-phosphor-us\/\"><strong>We&#8217;ve been singing<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Phosophorescent&#8217;s<\/strong> praises for a long time.\u00a0 Leader <strong>Matthew Houck<\/strong> and band, backed by full string section,<strong><\/strong> appeared on the <strong>Jimmy Fallon Show<\/strong> last night and did supreme justice to the single <strong><em>Song For Zula<\/em><\/strong> off its bar-setting album, <strong>Muchacho<\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0 Houck&#8217;s<\/strong> songs and vocals have always laid us out, gutted in a gutter in Gomorrah.\u00a0 Few have conveyed desolation so well.\u00a0 And though Houck&#8217;s vocals still convey on the new album, we hear a shift in tone and some loftier assessments and aspirations.\u00a0 Check their outstanding performance out below (the song&#8217;s quotable lyrics are at bottom).\u00a0 As the old folks say:\u00a0 that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about, right there.\u00a0 And ferheavenssake, go buy <strong>Muchacho<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/phosphorescentmusic.com\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/assets\/video\/widget\/widget.html?vid=n35867\" height=\"425\" width=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Song for Zula<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome say love is a burning thing<br \/>\nThat it makes a fiery ring<br \/>\nOh but I know love as a fading thing<br \/>\nJust as fickle as a feather in a stream<br \/>\nSee, honey, I saw love. You see, it came to me<br \/>\nIt put its face up to my face so I could see<br \/>\nYeah then I saw love disfigure me<br \/>\nInto something I am not recognizing<\/p>\n<p>See, the cage, it called. I said, \u201cCome on in\u201d<br \/>\nI will not open myself up this way again<br \/>\nNor lay my face to the soil, nor my teeth to the sand<br \/>\nI will not lay like this for days now upon end<br \/>\nYou will not see me fall, nor see me struggle to stand<br \/>\nTo be acknowledged by some touch from his gnarled hands<br \/>\nYou see, the cage, it called. I said, \u201cCome on in\u201d<br \/>\nI will not open myself up this way again<\/p>\n<p>You see, the moon is bright in that treetop night<br \/>\nI see the shadows that we cast in the cold, clean light<br \/>\nMy feet are gold. My heart is white<br \/>\nAnd we race out on the desert plains all night<br \/>\nSee, honey, I am not some broken thing<br \/>\nI do not lay here in the dark waiting for thee<br \/>\nNo my heart is gold. My feet are light<br \/>\nAnd I am racing out on the desert plains all night<\/p>\n<p>So some say love is a burning thing<br \/>\nThat it makes a fiery ring<br \/>\nOh but I know love as a caging thing<br \/>\nJust a killer come to call from some awful dream<br \/>\nO and all you folks, you come to see<br \/>\nYou just stand there in the glass looking at me<br \/>\nBut my heart is wild. And my bones are steam<br \/>\nAnd I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been singing Phosophorescent&#8217;s praises for a long time.\u00a0 Leader Matthew Houck and band, backed by full string section, appeared on the Jimmy Fallon Show last night and did supreme justice to the single Song For Zula off its bar-setting album, Muchacho.\u00a0 Houck&#8217;s songs and vocals have always laid us out, gutted in a gutter [&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-16347","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\/16347","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=16347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}