{"id":17404,"date":"2013-07-02T05:36:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T13:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=17404"},"modified":"2013-07-02T13:36:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T21:36:46","slug":"the-perfect-summer-song-in-dystopia-watch-eleanor-friedberger-perform-stare-at-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-07\/the-perfect-summer-song-in-dystopia-watch-eleanor-friedberger-perform-stare-at-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Summer Song in Dystopia&#8211;Watch Eleanor Friedberger Perform &#8220;Stare At the Sun&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in full summer swing around the northern hemisphere, nonetheless have found ourselves in a bit of a <strong> post-Glastonbury<\/strong> miasma (failed again). The perfect match for the mood came to us in the form of <strong>Eleanor Friedberger<\/strong> performing her song <em><strong>Stare At The Sun <\/strong><\/em>on<strong> KEXP<\/strong>.\u00a0 The song is off of <strong>Friedberger&#8217;s<\/strong> just released, superb second solo album <strong>Personal Record<\/strong>.\u00a0 Check <em><strong>Stare At The Sun<\/strong><\/em> in all it&#8217;s two-plus minutes of glory and melancholia.\u00a0 After, is the song&#8217;s official video. The song&#8217;s lyrics follow at bottom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sC6NPxRvPtc\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EVxuO2aa-eY\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the back of the of taxi, you turned off the TV<br \/>\nAnd read me a book on your phone<br \/>\nHere\u2019s the return of your skeleton key<br \/>\nOh baby the places we\u2019ve gone<\/p>\n<p>If that was goodbye than I must be high<br \/>\nYou know I\u2019ll be seeing you soon<br \/>\nIf that was goodbye and the snow in July<br \/>\nAs it hailed in the middle of June<\/p>\n<p>Give me your toothpaste<br \/>\nGive me your ointment<br \/>\nGive me your body and then<br \/>\nKeep this in amber<br \/>\nKeep our appointment<br \/>\nRemember the things that we sang<\/p>\n<p>If that was goodbye than I must be high<br \/>\nYou must be the sugar I need<br \/>\nIf that was goodbye than I am a fly<br \/>\nAnd the future is guaranteed<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cause when I\u2019m with you everything\u2019s treasure<br \/>\nI forget what it\u2019s like to be wrong<br \/>\nI\u2019m far from the town in the suburbs of your pleasure<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been in exile so long<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying not to stare at the sun<br \/>\nNo, I&#8217;m trying not to stare at the sun<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying not to stare at the sun<\/p>\n<p>Cooperative coffee and synchronized showers<br \/>\nI try not to look at the clock<br \/>\nGoodbye to your castle<br \/>\nWave from the tower<br \/>\nAnd drop me a line from the dock<br \/>\nIf that was goodbye than you must be high<br \/>\nAnd maybe I&#8217;m losing a friend<br \/>\nIf that was goodbye then the sea has run dry<br \/>\nSo I fill it in with tears instead<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cause when I\u2019m with you everything\u2019s treasure<br \/>\nI forget what it\u2019s like to be gone<br \/>\nI\u2019m far from the town in the suburbs of your pleasure<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been in exile so long<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying not to stare at the sun<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying not to stare at the sun<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying not to stare at the sun<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cause when I\u2019m with you everything\u2019s treasure<br \/>\nI forget what it\u2019s like to be gone<br \/>\nI\u2019m far from the town in the suburbs of your pleasure<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been in exile so long.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying not to stare at the sun<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying not to stare at the sun<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying not to stare at the sun&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in full summer swing around the northern hemisphere, nonetheless have found ourselves in a bit of a post-Glastonbury miasma (failed again). The perfect match for the mood came to us in the form of Eleanor Friedberger performing her song Stare At The Sun on KEXP.\u00a0 The song is off of Friedberger&#8217;s just released, superb [&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-17404","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\/17404","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=17404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}