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On their new album, “The Monitor,” Titus Andronicus blister and wail across the majority of the record.<\/p>\n
But just when you need a respite, up comes this New Jersey band’s song, To Old and New Friends<\/em>.\u00a0 Piano softly introduces the song.\u00a0 Lead singer Peter Stickles comes on initially with the call and Jenn Wasner (of Wye Oak) has the response in her beautiful voice.\u00a0 Then at 2:15 a glorious horn is added, and layers are added, and they come farther forward and then recede, to stunningly good effect.<\/p>\n And the gut-wrenching dialogue between these two love-torn lovers adds powerful punch, excerpts from which are below:<\/p>\n “Like the time traveler who killed his grandfather, these cycles are bringing me down. Was it the devil, or was it the lord If I were there to keep satisfied all of your carnal desires, But if you know that nobody is ever going It’s alright now”<\/p>\n Torn asunder.<\/p>\n Titus Andronicus–To Old and New Friends<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/08-To-Old-Friends-And-New.mp3|titles=08 To Old Friends And New]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On their new album, “The Monitor,” Titus Andronicus blister and wail across the majority of the record. But just when you need a respite, up comes this New Jersey band’s song, To Old and New Friends.\u00a0 Piano softly introduces the song.\u00a0 Lead singer Peter Stickles comes on initially with the call and Jenn Wasner (of […]<\/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-413","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\/413","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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe could build a nice life together if we don’t kill each other first.
\nAre you just too fucked up to understand me or is it the other way around?
\nMaybe it’s both, and I just don’t know which is worse….<\/p>\n
\nwho gave you those words,
\nthe ones I never heard….<\/p>\n
\nthen it might be my place to say what is or isn’t forbid
\nSo how can I hold it against you if you answer the call of the wild?
\nNo matter how brilliant a woman, you’re only a kid….<\/p>\n
\nto suffer for you like I did
\nWell it’s alright the way that you live,
\nIt’s alright the way that you live.<\/p>\n