{"id":27827,"date":"2017-09-08T16:43:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T00:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27827"},"modified":"2017-09-08T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T00:43:18","slug":"watch-the-national-perform-day-i-die-live-on-colbert-show-sleep-well-beast-album-released-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-09\/watch-the-national-perform-day-i-die-live-on-colbert-show-sleep-well-beast-album-released-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The National Perform &#8220;Day I Die&#8221; Live on Colbert Show&#8211;&#8220;Sleep Well Beast&#8221; Album Released Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/natcolbert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/natcolbert-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/natcolbert-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/natcolbert-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/natcolbert-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/natcolbert.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanmary.com\/\"><strong>The National<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0showed up on\u00a0<strong>Colbert&#8217;s Late Show<\/strong> last night\u00a0to perform their impressive new song\u00a0<strong><em>Day I Die<\/em><\/strong> (off of new album\u00a0<strong><em>Sleep Well Beast<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0which was just released today). We&#8217;ve been digesting the new album for a while and can happily say (full review, soon come) that the band does not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the very lively <em><strong>Day I Die<\/strong><\/em> performance below, which features guitar hooks aplenty delivered by an enlarged band, including a posse of percussionists and regular touring members <strong>Benjamin Lanz<\/strong> and <strong>Kyle Resnick<\/strong>, along with\u00a0<strong>Arone Dyer<\/strong> (of <strong>Buke and Gase<\/strong>) who adds vocals on the new album. Check it out and go buy\/stream\u00a0<em><strong>Sleep Well Beast<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/4ad.co\/SleepWellBeast\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>. <em><strong>Day I Die&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> lyrics are at bottom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAOC_g_CHM8\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Day I Die:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t need you. I don\u2019t need you.<br \/>\nBesides I barely ever see you anymore,<br \/>\nand when I do it feels like you\u2019re only halfway there.<br \/>\nYoung mothers love me, even ghosts of girlfriends<br \/>\ncall from Cleveland\u2014they will meet me<br \/>\nany time and anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The day I die, day I die, where will we be?<br \/>\nThe day I die, day I die, where will we be?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t do this, I don\u2019t do this to you.<br \/>\nAnd don\u2019t expect me to enjoy it.<br \/>\nBecause I really don\u2019t have the courage not to turn the volume up<br \/>\ninside my ears. For years I used to put my head inside<br \/>\nthe speakers in the hallway<br \/>\nwhen you\u2019d get too high and talk forever.<\/p>\n<p>The day I die, day I die, where will we be?<br \/>\nThe day I die, day I die, where will we be?<br \/>\nThe day I die, day I die, where will we be?<br \/>\nThe day I die, day I die, where will we be?<\/p>\n<p>I get little punchy with the vodka just like my great uncle Valentine Jester did<br \/>\nwhen he had to deal with those people like you who made no goddam common sense.<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather walk all the way home right now than to spend one more second in this place.<br \/>\nI\u2019m exactly like you Valentine. Just come outside and leave with me.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s just get high enough to see our problems.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s just get high enough to see our father\u2019s houses.<\/p>\n<p>The day I die, day I die, where will we be?<br \/>\nThe day I die, day I die, where will we be?<br \/>\nThe day I die, day I die, where will we be?<br \/>\nThe day I die, day I die, where will we be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National\u00a0showed up on\u00a0Colbert&#8217;s Late Show last night\u00a0to perform their impressive new song\u00a0Day I Die (off of new album\u00a0Sleep Well Beast,\u00a0which was just released today). We&#8217;ve been digesting the new album for a while and can happily say (full review, soon come) that the band does not disappoint. Check out the very lively Day I [&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-27827","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\/27827","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=27827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27831,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27827\/revisions\/27831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}