Earlier this month, Jimmy Fallon affirmed that The Tonight Show has “never really been that political,” in an effort to distance his show from the conversation about late-night’s recent rupture. While he might keep his monologues clean, his musical guests bear no similar obligation. Hayley Williams took the Tonight Show stage on Thursday for the first live performance of “True Believer,” a chilling record about the sins that haunt the South and the ghosts that aren’t geographically contained.

“They put up chain-link fences underneath the biggest bridges/They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all their children/They say that Jesus is the way, but then they gave him a white face/So they don’t have to pray to someone they deem lesser than them,” Williams sang. She perfo

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