{"id":6114,"date":"2011-08-24T15:38:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2011-08-24T17:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T17:58:02","slug":"eleanor-friedberger-solo-acoustic-my-mistakes-and-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-08\/eleanor-friedberger-solo-acoustic-my-mistakes-and-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Friedberger–Solo Acoustic–“My Mistakes” and New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of our favorite albums of the year so far is the first solo album by Eleanor Friedberger<\/strong> of The Fiery Furnaces<\/strong>.\u00a0 We posted<\/strong><\/a> her official video for her brilliant summer song, My Mistakes<\/strong><\/em>, during the depths of the coastal June gloom, and it remains one of our favorite songs.\u00a0 We just found this sweet solo acoustic rendition of the song below as captured by Jeff Martin and Matt Tanski.\u00a0 And below that is a brand new heart-strings song, Stare At the Sun, <\/strong><\/em>done up acoustic by Eleanor (she of the Patti Smith\/Feist visual motif).\u00a0 The song is so new she has to read the lyrics, and the emotion is palpable.\u00a0 We can’t wait to catch her at The Wiltern<\/strong> on September 10th in LA.<\/p>\n

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Eleanor Friedberger – My Mistakes<\/a> from Jeff Martin<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s Stare at the Sun, the lyrics of which are:<\/p>\n

“In the back of the taxi, you turned off the TV
\nAnd read me a book on your phone
\nHere’s the return of your skeleton key
\nOh baby the places we’ve gone
\nIf that was goodbye then I must be high
\nYou know I’ll be seeing ya soon
\nIf that was goodbye it’ll snow in July,
\nLike it hailed in the middle of June<\/p>\n

If that was goodbye it’ll snow in July
\nLike it hailed in the middle of June<\/p>\n

Give me your toothpaste
\nGive me your ointment
\nGive me your body in bed
\nKeep this in amber
\nKeep our appointment
\nRemember the things that we said
\nIf that was goodbye
\nThen I must be high
\nYou must be the sugar I need
\nIf that was goodbye
\nThen i am a fly
\nThe future is guaranteed
\nBecause when I’m with you
\nEverything’s treasure
\nI forget what it’s like to be gone
\nFar from the town
\nIn the suburbs of your pleasure
\nYou can tell I was in exile so long
\nTry not to stare at the sun
\nTry not to stare at the sun
\nTry not to stare at the sun<\/p>\n

Cooperative coffee and synchronized showers
\nTry not to look at the clock
\nBye to your castle
\nWave from the tower
\nThen drop me a line at the dock
\nIf that was goodbye,
\nYou must be high
\nand maybe I’m losing the thread
\nIf that was goodbye,
\nOur sea has run dry
\nSo fill it with tears instead
\nBecause when I’m with you everything’s treasure
\nI forget what it’s like to be gone
\nOh far from the town
\nIn the suburbs of your pleasure
\nYou can tell I was in exile so long
\nTry not to stare at the sun
\nTry not to stare at the sun
\nTry not to stare at the sun”<\/p>\n

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Eleanor Friedberger – Stare at the Sun<\/a> from Jeff Martin<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of our favorite albums of the year so far is the first solo album by Eleanor Friedberger of The Fiery Furnaces.\u00a0 We posted her official video for her brilliant summer song, My Mistakes, during the depths of the coastal June gloom, and it remains one of our favorite songs.\u00a0 We just found this sweet […]<\/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-6114","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\/6114","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=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}