Hayley Williams stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, October 8th to perform “True Believer,” a stirring cut from her recent album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party .

Williams began the performance seated at the piano, but was quickly joined by a full band, including a seven-piece string section. With a powerful chord progression and vocals that rise in intensity, Williams laments the changes she’s seen in Nashville, the rise of megachurches and bigoted Christians, and the way capitalism is responsible for both of these developments.

“Act like God ain’t watching/ Kill the soul, turn a profit” she sings in the first verse, later seething “The south will not rise again/ ‘Til its paid for every sin/ Strange fruit, hard bargain/ Till the roots, Southern G

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