{"id":20495,"date":"2014-02-21T09:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T17:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=20495"},"modified":"2014-02-21T09:44:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T17:44:15","slug":"watch-arcade-fire-perform-afterlife-on-fallons-tonight-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-02\/watch-arcade-fire-perform-afterlife-on-fallons-tonight-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Arcade Fire Perform &#8220;Afterlife&#8221; on Fallon&#8217;s Tonight Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20500\" alt=\"AFTS3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS3-650x365.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS3-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS3-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS3-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS3.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20501\" alt=\"AFTS2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS2-650x365.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS2-650x365.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS2-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AFTS2.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jimmy Fallon<\/strong> continued his world-takeover of late night TV last night (due respect to our long-time fave <strong>Dave Letterman<\/strong>) on <strong>The Tonight Show.\u00a0 Fallon<\/strong> brought\u00a0<strong>Arcade Fire<\/strong> into his <strong>Tonight Show<\/strong>-revival tent for a performance of <em><strong>Afterlife<\/strong><\/em>, one of the highlights from their recent album <em><strong>Reflektor<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Check it out below.\u00a0 We give the songwriters aplomb for asking:\u00a0 where do we go?\u00a0 Disco ball and all.\u00a0\u00a0 A wake for marital love in the wake of child-birth, or a quest for the air? Who knows?\u00a0 Gratuitous audience-visit by <strong>Win Butler<\/strong> included.<\/p>\n<p>The song&#8217;s worthy lyrics and inquiry are at bottom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/NnzsPC\/widget\/select\/NVgEVNT9XWPM?form=html\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" seamless=\"seamless\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Afterlife<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Afterlife, oh my God, what an awful word<br \/>\nAfter all the breath and the dirt<br \/>\nAnd the fires that burn<br \/>\nAnd after all this time<br \/>\nAnd after all the ambulances go<br \/>\nAnd after all the hangers-on are done<br \/>\nHanging on to the dead lights<br \/>\nOf the afterglow<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotta know<br \/>\nCan we work it out?<br \/>\nWe scream and shout &#8217;till we work it out<br \/>\nCan we just work it out?<br \/>\nScream and shout &#8217;till we work it out?<br \/>\n&#8216;Till we work it out, &#8217;till we work it out<br \/>\n&#8216;Till we work it out, &#8217;till we work it out<\/p>\n<p>Afterlife, I think I saw what happens next<br \/>\nIt was just a glimpse of you<br \/>\nLike looking through a window<br \/>\nOr a shallow sea<br \/>\nCould you see me?<br \/>\nAnd after all this time<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like nothing else we used to know<br \/>\nAfter all the hangers-on are done<br \/>\nHanging on to the dead lights<br \/>\nOf the afterglow<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotta know<\/p>\n<p>Can we work it out?<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s scream and shout &#8217;till we work it out<br \/>\nCan we just work it out?<br \/>\nIf you scream and shout &#8217;till we work it out?<\/p>\n<p>But you say<br \/>\nOh, when love is gone<br \/>\nWhere does it go?<br \/>\nAnd you say<br \/>\nOh, when love is gone<br \/>\nWhere does it go?<br \/>\nAnd where do we go?<br \/>\nWhere do we go?<br \/>\nWhere do we go?<br \/>\nWhere do we go?<br \/>\nWhere do we go?<br \/>\nWhere do we go?<br \/>\nWhere do we go?<br \/>\nWhere do we go?<\/p>\n<p>And after this<br \/>\nCan it last another night?<br \/>\nAfter all the bad advice<br \/>\nHad nothing at all to do with life<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotta know<\/p>\n<p>Can we work it out?<br \/>\nScream and shout &#8217;till we work it out?<br \/>\nCan we just work it out?<br \/>\nScream and shout &#8217;till we work it out?<\/p>\n<p>But you say<br \/>\nOh, when love is gone<br \/>\nWhere does it go?<br \/>\nAnd you say<br \/>\nOh, when love is gone<br \/>\nWhere does it go?<br \/>\nOh, when love is gone<br \/>\nWhere did it go?<br \/>\nOh, when love is gone<br \/>\nWhere did it go?<br \/>\nAnd where do we go?<\/p>\n<p>Is this the afterlife?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just an afterlife, with you<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just an afterlife<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just an afterlife, with you<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just an afterlife.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Fallon continued his world-takeover of late night TV last night (due respect to our long-time fave Dave Letterman) on The Tonight Show.\u00a0 Fallon brought\u00a0Arcade Fire into his Tonight Show-revival tent for a performance of Afterlife, one of the highlights from their recent album Reflektor.\u00a0 Check it out below.\u00a0 We give the songwriters aplomb for [&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-20495","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\/20495","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=20495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}