{"id":26671,"date":"2016-12-01T14:04:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26671"},"modified":"2016-12-01T14:04:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T22:04:51","slug":"songs-for-these-times-check-out-local-natives-cover-of-kanye-wests-ultralight-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-12\/songs-for-these-times-check-out-local-natives-cover-of-kanye-wests-ultralight-beam\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs For These Times&#8211;Check Out Local Natives&#8217; Cover of Kanye West&#8217;s &#8220;Ultralight Beam&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ultralight-beam-kanye-west-ft-the-dream-kelly-price-kirk-franklin-chance-the-rapper-sheet-music-and-midi-download-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-26674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ultralight-beam-kanye-west-ft-the-dream-kelly-price-kirk-franklin-chance-the-rapper-sheet-music-and-midi-download-1-650x422.png\" alt=\"ultralight-beam-kanye-west-ft-the-dream-kelly-price-kirk-franklin-chance-the-rapper-sheet-music-and-midi-download-1\" width=\"635\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ultralight-beam-kanye-west-ft-the-dream-kelly-price-kirk-franklin-chance-the-rapper-sheet-music-and-midi-download-1-650x422.png 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ultralight-beam-kanye-west-ft-the-dream-kelly-price-kirk-franklin-chance-the-rapper-sheet-music-and-midi-download-1-150x97.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ultralight-beam-kanye-west-ft-the-dream-kelly-price-kirk-franklin-chance-the-rapper-sheet-music-and-midi-download-1-450x292.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ultralight-beam-kanye-west-ft-the-dream-kelly-price-kirk-franklin-chance-the-rapper-sheet-music-and-midi-download-1.png 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LA greats <a href=\"http:\/\/thelocalnatives.com\/\"><strong>Local Natives<\/strong><\/a> have covered<strong> Kanye West&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0shining<strong>\u00a0<em>Ultralight Beam<\/em><\/strong> to superb effect. Check it out below, followed by the inimitable original and the song&#8217;s lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>People: we on an ultralight beam.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify%3Atrack%3A3wAW1vIrWxUmJajU9tl0AP\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m4w08DXtXn8\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m tryna keep my faith<br \/>\nWe on an ultralight beam<br \/>\nWe on an ultralight beam<br \/>\nThis is a God dream<br \/>\nThis is a God dream<br \/>\nThis is everything<br \/>\nThis is everything<br \/>\nDeliver us serenity<br \/>\nDeliver us peace<br \/>\nDeliver us loving<br \/>\nWe know we need it<br \/>\nYou know we need it<br \/>\nYou know we need it<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why we need you now, oh, I<br \/>\nPray for Paris<br \/>\nPray for the parents<br \/>\nThis is a God dream<br \/>\nThis is a God dream<br \/>\nThis is a God dream<br \/>\nWe on an ultralight beam<br \/>\nWe on an ultralight beam<br \/>\nThis is a God dream<br \/>\nThis is a God dream<br \/>\nThis is everything<br \/>\nEverything (Thing, thing, thing)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tryna keep my faith<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m looking for more<br \/>\nSomewhere I can feel safe<br \/>\nAnd end my holy war<br \/>\nI&#8217;m tryna keep my faith<\/p>\n<p>So why send oppression not blessings?<br \/>\nWhy, oh why&#8217;d you do me wrong? (More)<br \/>\nYou persecute the weak<br \/>\nBecause it makes you feel so strong<br \/>\n(To save) Don&#8217;t have much strength to fight<br \/>\nSo I look to the light<br \/>\n(War) To make these wrongs turn right<br \/>\nHead up high, I look to the light<br \/>\nHey, &#8217;cause I know that you&#8217;ll make everything alright<br \/>\nAnd I know that you&#8217;ll take good care of your child<br \/>\nOh, no longer am afraid of the night<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause I, I look to the light<\/p>\n<p>When they come for you, I will shield your name<br \/>\nI will field their questions, I will feel your pain<br \/>\nNo one can judge<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t, they don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nThey don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nFoot on the Devil&#8217;s neck &#8217;til it drifted Pangaea<br \/>\nI&#8217;m moving all my family from Chatham to Zambia<br \/>\nTreat the demons just like Pam<br \/>\nI mean I fuck with your friends, but damn, Gina<br \/>\nI been this way since Arthur was anteater<br \/>\nNow they wanna hit me with the woo wap, the bam<br \/>\nTryna snap photos of familia<br \/>\nMy daughter look just like Sia, you can&#8217;t see her<br \/>\nYou can feel the lyrics, the spirit coming in braille<br \/>\nTubman of the underground, come and follow the trail<br \/>\nI made Sunday Candy, I&#8217;m never going to hell<br \/>\nI met Kanye West, I&#8217;m never going to fail<br \/>\nHe said let&#8217;s do a good ass job with Chance three<br \/>\nI hear you gotta sell it to snatch the Grammy<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s make it so free and the bars so hard<br \/>\nThat there ain&#8217;t one gosh darn part you can&#8217;t tweet<br \/>\nThis is my part, nobody else speak<br \/>\nThis is my part, nobody else speak<br \/>\nThis little light of mine<br \/>\nGlory be to God, yeah<br \/>\nI&#8217;ma make sure that they go where they can&#8217;t go<br \/>\nIf they don&#8217;t wanna ride I&#8217;mma still give them raincoats<br \/>\nKnow what God said when he made the first rainbow<br \/>\nJust throw this at the end if I&#8217;m too late for the intro<br \/>\nUgh, I&#8217;m just having fun with it<br \/>\nYou know that a nigga was lost<br \/>\nI laugh in my head<br \/>\nCause I bet that my ex looking back like a pillar of salt<br \/>\nUgh, &#8217;cause they&#8217;ll flip the script on your ass like Wesley and Spike<br \/>\nYou cannot mess with the light<br \/>\nLook at lil&#8217; Chano from 79th<\/p>\n<p>We on an ultralight beam<br \/>\nWe on an ultralight beam<br \/>\nThis is a God dream<br \/>\nThis is a God dream<br \/>\nThis is everything<br \/>\nEverything<\/p>\n<p>Yes, God<br \/>\nHallelujah<br \/>\nI&#8217;m tryna keep my faith<br \/>\n(Yes, Jesus)<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m looking for more<br \/>\nSomewhere I can feel safe<br \/>\nAnd end my holy war<\/p>\n<p>Father, this prayer is for everyone that feels they&#8217;re not good enough<br \/>\nThis prayer&#8217;s for everybody that feels like they&#8217;re too messed up<br \/>\nFor everyone that feels they&#8217;ve said &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8221; too many times<br \/>\nYou can never go too far when you can&#8217;t come back home again<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why I need&#8230;<br \/>\nFaith, more, safe, war&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA greats Local Natives have covered Kanye West&#8217;s\u00a0shining\u00a0Ultralight Beam to superb effect. Check it out below, followed by the inimitable original and the song&#8217;s lyrics. People: we on an ultralight beam. &#8220;I&#8217;m tryna keep my faith We on an ultralight beam We on an ultralight beam This is a God dream This is a God [&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-26671","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\/26671","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=26671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26676,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26671\/revisions\/26676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}