{"id":21771,"date":"2014-07-26T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T23:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=21771"},"modified":"2014-07-26T15:12:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T23:12:31","slug":"your-saturday-uplift-watch-ages-and-ages-official-videos-for-divisionary-do-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-07\/your-saturday-uplift-watch-ages-and-ages-official-videos-for-divisionary-do-the-right-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Saturday Uplift:  Watch Ages And Ages&#8217; Official Videos For &#8220;Divisionary (Do the Right Thing)&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AGESANDAGES-divisionary-1425x1425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AGESANDAGES-divisionary-1425x1425-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"AGESANDAGES-divisionary-1425x1425\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AGESANDAGES-divisionary-1425x1425-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AGESANDAGES-divisionary-1425x1425-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AGESANDAGES-divisionary-1425x1425-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AGESANDAGES-divisionary-1425x1425.jpg 1425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quite a while ago we had grown weary of the groupsing thing coming out of the Northwest and elsewhere.\u00a0 Too many cherubic faces singing in unison about uninteresting universes.\u00a0 Distance can make the heart grow fonder, though.\u00a0 And it doesn&#8217;t hurt the groupsing cause if you toss in a children&#8217;s choir and brass for days, and sing an encouraging verse.\u00a0 To wit, check out the witty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agesandages.com\/\"><strong>Ages And Ages<\/strong><\/a> below as they sing <em><strong>Divisionary (Do the Right Thing),<\/strong> <\/em>seemingly with the entire populous of Portland on tap.\u00a0 As for the encouraging verse, as the band says:\u00a0 &#8220;This song is about keeping yourself right even amidst darkness and negativity. For the official video [Ed.&#8211;following the live video], we decided to portray this struggle through the story of a bunch of young kids who set out to make things right, but lose a part of themselves along the way. They may have started off on the same path and with good intentions, but their struggle reveals varying agendas and leads them in very different directions.&#8221;\u00a0 Hmm.\u00a0 What part of those words reminds us so much of current and historical world conflicts?\u00a0 Hmm, let&#8217;s see&#8230;.\u00a0 Regardless, if you need a lift this Saturday (or any other day), this song might fill that need.\u00a0 Check it out live and in studio below.\u00a0 The song&#8217;s lyrics follow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jIShuV7_KVw?list=UUb1yc_Zi4beEs4-hUyVJHYw\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-BAU9mKJjdU?list=UUb1yc_Zi4beEs4-hUyVJHYw\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Divisionary<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do the right thing do the right thing<br \/>\ndo it all the time do it all the time<br \/>\nmake yourself right, never mind them<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t you know you&#8217;re not the only one suffering<\/p>\n<p>I see you up again wandering so diligently<br \/>\ncrossing your t&#8217;s as though it weren&#8217;t irrelevant<br \/>\nthey say formality, this is what they really meant:<br \/>\nthey can be the walk and we can be the pavement<\/p>\n<p>Do the right thing do the right thing<br \/>\ndo it all the time do it all the time<br \/>\nmake yourself right, never mind them<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t you know you&#8217;re not the only one suffering<\/p>\n<p>So what you&#8217;re up against all the disingenuous<br \/>\nThey wave you along and say there&#8217;s always room for us<br \/>\nBut we know better than that to take&#8217;em serious.<br \/>\nStill don&#8217;t let&#8217;em make you bitter in the process<\/p>\n<p>And when the light is up, this is how oughta be<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll make it alright, they&#8217;ll come around eventually<br \/>\nThey say it&#8217;s nothing but that ain&#8217;t the reality<br \/>\nThey may take us on but they can never take us easy<\/p>\n<p>Cuz they ain&#8217;t moving, they&#8217;re just moving around<br \/>\nSo if you love yourself, you better get out now<\/p>\n<p>I hear a higher calling<br \/>\nBetter here than there I guess<br \/>\nso long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a while ago we had grown weary of the groupsing thing coming out of the Northwest and elsewhere.\u00a0 Too many cherubic faces singing in unison about uninteresting universes.\u00a0 Distance can make the heart grow fonder, though.\u00a0 And it doesn&#8217;t hurt the groupsing cause if you toss in a children&#8217;s choir and brass for days, [&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-21771","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\/21771","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=21771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}