Hayley Williams took the Tonight Show stage for the first live performance of “True Believer,” a record which is about the gentrification of Nashville, the hypocrisy of evangelical Christians, and the South’s troubled legacy.

“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, later seething “The south will not rise again/ ‘Til its paid for every sin.”

"True Believer" also name-checks "Strange Fruit," the anti-lynching protest anthem popularized by Billie Holliday's 1939 recording, which the orchestra played a bit of at the end — a lineage of Williams's own

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