{"id":26591,"date":"2016-10-19T09:55:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26591"},"modified":"2016-10-19T09:56:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T17:56:27","slug":"listen-to-r-e-m-s-uncanny-world-leader-pretend-for-the-anti-trump-30-days-30-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-10\/listen-to-r-e-m-s-uncanny-world-leader-pretend-for-the-anti-trump-30-days-30-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen To R.E.M.&#8217;s Uncanny &#8220;World Leader Pretend&#8221; For The Anti-Trump &#8220;30 Days, 30 Songs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-26574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump_3-481x600.jpg\" alt=\"trump_3\" width=\"481\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump_3-481x600.jpg 481w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump_3-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump_3-320x400.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/trump_3.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The seminal <strong>R.E.M.<\/strong> has contributed a previously-unreleased live performance of their song <em><strong>World Leader Pretend<\/strong> <\/em>(off their 1988\u00a0<em><strong>Green<\/strong><\/em> album) for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.30days30songs.com\/\"><strong> 30 Days, 30 Songs<\/strong><\/a>. As one can see from the song&#8217;s lyrics (see below), although it was written nearly 30 years ago, the song is a perfect match for the <strong>30 Days<\/strong>\u00a0anti-Trump campaign. \u00a0Check it out and make sure to vote.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SCFIlkh5pjA\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>World Leader Pretend<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I sit at my table and wage war on myself<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>It seems like it&#8217;s all, it&#8217;s all for nothing<\/strong><br \/>\nI know the barricades<br \/>\nAnd I know the mortar in the wall breaks<br \/>\nI recognize the weapons, I&#8217;ve used them well<\/p>\n<p>This is my mistake<br \/>\nLet me make it good<br \/>\n<strong>I raised the wall<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> And I will be the one to knock it down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve a rich understanding of my finest defenses<br \/>\n<strong>I proclaim that claims are left unstated<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> I demand a rematch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I decree a stalemate<br \/>\nI divine my deeper motives<br \/>\nI recognize the weapons<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve practiced them well<br \/>\nI fitted them myself<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing what devices you can sympathize (empathize)<br \/>\nThis is my mistake, let me make it good<br \/>\n<strong>I raised the wall<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> And I will be the one to knock it down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reach out for me<br \/>\nHold me tight<br \/>\nHold that memory<br \/>\nLet my machine talk to me<br \/>\nLet my machine talk to me<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is my world, and I am the World Leader Pretend<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> This is my life, and this is my time<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> I have been given the freedom to do as I see fit<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> It&#8217;s high time I razed the walls that I&#8217;ve constructed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing what devices you can sympathize (empathize)<br \/>\nThis is my mistake, let me make it good<br \/>\n<strong>I raised the wall<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> And I will be the one to knock it down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You fill in the mortar<br \/>\nYou fill in the harmony<br \/>\nYou fill in the mortar<br \/>\n<strong>I raised the wall<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> And I&#8217;m the only one<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> I will be the one to knock it down<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seminal R.E.M. has contributed a previously-unreleased live performance of their song World Leader Pretend (off their 1988\u00a0Green album) for 30 Days, 30 Songs. As one can see from the song&#8217;s lyrics (see below), although it was written nearly 30 years ago, the song is a perfect match for the 30 Days\u00a0anti-Trump campaign. \u00a0Check it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26591","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\/26591","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=26591"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26596,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591\/revisions\/26596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}