{"id":8264,"date":"2015-02-26T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T23:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=8264"},"modified":"2015-02-26T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T23:34:15","slug":"throw-back-thursday-watch-the-rolling-stones-official-video-for-far-away-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-02\/throw-back-thursday-watch-the-rolling-stones-official-video-for-far-away-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Throw-Back Thursday&#8211;Watch The Rolling Stones&#8217; Official Video For &#8220;Far Away Eyes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Some_Girls.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-23464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Some_Girls-600x600.png\" alt=\"Some_Girls\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Some_Girls.png 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Some_Girls-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Some_Girls-400x400.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As far as we can discern, the past few weeks have been amongst the slowest in the history of music. There have been glimmers (such as yesterday&#8217;s <strong>Song of the Week<\/strong> from <strong>Warpaint <\/strong>and <strong>Mocky&#8217;s<\/strong> new songs), but heavens to mergatroid!\u00a0 To keep the ball and stone rollin&#8217; and to throw back a bit, check out below <strong>The Rolling Stones&#8217;<\/strong> official video for their tongue-in-cheek, countrified <em><strong>Far Away Eyes<\/strong><\/em> off of their superb 1978 album <em><strong>Some Girls<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 From disco to reggae to country to rock, <strong>Some Girls<\/strong> had it all.\u00a0 Watch below as the hilarity ensues amongst the band members.\u00a0 The song&#8217;s lyrics are at bottom.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VyK1bZZ7E-s\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield<br \/>\nListening to gospel music on the colored radio station<br \/>\nAnd the preacher said &#8220;you know you always have the<br \/>\nLord by your side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran<br \/>\nTwenty red lights in his honor<br \/>\nThank you Jesus, thank you lord.<\/p>\n<p>I had an arrangement to meet a girl, and I was kind of late<br \/>\nAnd I thought by the time I got there shed be off<br \/>\nShed be off with the nearest truck driver she could find<br \/>\nMuch to my surprise, there she was sittin&#8217; in the corner<br \/>\nA little bleary, worse for wear and tear<br \/>\nWas a girl with far away eyes<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re down on your luck<br \/>\nAnd you cant harmonize<br \/>\nFind a girl with far away<br \/>\nAnd if you&#8217;re downright disgusted<br \/>\nAnd life ain&#8217;t worth a dime<br \/>\nGet a girl with far away eyes<\/p>\n<p>Well the preacher kept right on saying that all I had to do was send<br \/>\nTen dollars to the church of the sacred bleeding heart of jesus<br \/>\nLocated somewhere in Los Angeles, California<br \/>\nAnd next week they&#8217;d say my prayer on the radio<br \/>\nAnd all my dreams would come true<br \/>\nSo I did, the next week, I got a prayer with a girl<br \/>\nWell, you know what kind of eyes she got<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re down on your luck<br \/>\nI know you all sympathize<br \/>\nFind a girl with far away eyes<br \/>\nAnd if you&#8217;re downright disgusted<br \/>\nAnd life ain&#8217;t worth a dime<br \/>\nGet a girl with far away eyes&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as we can discern, the past few weeks have been amongst the slowest in the history of music. There have been glimmers (such as yesterday&#8217;s Song of the Week from Warpaint and Mocky&#8217;s new songs), but heavens to mergatroid!\u00a0 To keep the ball and stone rollin&#8217; and to throw back a bit, check [&hellip;]<\/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-8264","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\/8264","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=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23465,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions\/23465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}