{"id":27474,"date":"2017-06-14T15:21:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T23:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27474"},"modified":"2017-06-14T15:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T23:21:22","slug":"nick-cave-slowly-burned-down-colberts-late-show-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-06\/nick-cave-slowly-burned-down-colberts-late-show-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Cave Slowly Burned Down Colbert&#8217;s Late Show Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/colbertcave_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/colbertcave_-650x434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/colbertcave_-650x434.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/colbertcave_-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/colbertcave_-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/colbertcave_-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/colbertcave_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickcave.com\/home\/\"><strong>Nick Cave<\/strong> <\/a>has once again come through tumult and tribulation, and remains a triumphant live performer. Don&#8217;t believe us? \u00a0Just watch\u00a0<strong>Cave&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0smoldering performance below of muse-homage\u00a0<em><strong>Rings of Saturn<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(worthy lyrics below) off of his haunted and haunting album <em><strong>Skeleton Tree<\/strong><\/em>. <strong>Cave<\/strong> and his<strong> Bad Seeds<\/strong> are out on tour now, and you can check the dates and get tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickcave.com\/live\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(including impending dates this month in Cali). \u00a0Don&#8217;t you miss it. \u00a0He&#8217;s one of the greatest ever to grace a stage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MoxUKpqXwBw\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Rings of Saturn<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upside down and inside out and on all eights<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re like a funnel-web<br \/>\nLike a black fly on the ceiling<br \/>\nSkinny, white haunches high in the sky<br \/>\nAnd a black oily gash crawling backwards across the carpet to smash all over everything<br \/>\nWet, black fur against the sun going down<br \/>\nOver the shops and the cars and the crowds in the town<\/p>\n<p>And this is the moment, this is exactly where she is born to be<br \/>\nNow this is what she does and this is what she is<br \/>\nAnd this is the moment, this is exactly where she is born to be<br \/>\nThis is what she does and this is what she is<\/p>\n<p>Her eyes that look at me through a rainy hair<br \/>\nTwo round holes where the air buckles and rushes in<br \/>\nHer body, moon blue, was a jellyfish<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m breathing deep and I&#8217;m there and I&#8217;m also not there<br \/>\nAnd spurting ink over the sheets but she remains, completely unexplained<br \/>\nOr maybe I&#8217;m just too tongue-tied to drink it up and swallow back the pain<br \/>\nI thought slavery had been abolished<br \/>\nHow come it&#8217;s gone and reared its ugly head again?<\/p>\n<p>And this is the moment, this is exactly what she is born to be<br \/>\nAnd this is what she does and this is what she is<br \/>\nAnd this is the moment, this is exactly what she is born to be<br \/>\nThis is what she is and this is what she does<br \/>\nAnd this is the moment, this is exactly what she is born to be<br \/>\nAnd this is what she does and this is what she is<br \/>\nAnd this is the moment, this is exactly what she is born to be<br \/>\nThen this is what she does and this is what she is<\/p>\n<p>And now she&#8217;s jumping up with her leaping brain<br \/>\nStepping over heaps of sleeping children<br \/>\nDisappearing and further up and spinning out again<br \/>\nUp and further up she goes, up and out of the bed<br \/>\nUp and out of the bed and down the hall where she stops for moment and turns and says<br \/>\n&#8220;Are you still here?&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd then reaches high and dangles herself like a child&#8217;s dream from the rings of Saturn&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Cave has once again come through tumult and tribulation, and remains a triumphant live performer. Don&#8217;t believe us? \u00a0Just watch\u00a0Cave&#8217;s\u00a0smoldering performance below of muse-homage\u00a0Rings of Saturn\u00a0(worthy lyrics below) off of his haunted and haunting album Skeleton Tree. Cave and his Bad Seeds are out on tour now, and you can check the dates and [&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-27474","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\/27474","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=27474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27480,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27474\/revisions\/27480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}