Bright Eyes "When the president talks to God"

And ev'ry one will say,
As you walk your mystic way,
"If this young man expresses himself
in terms too deep for me,
Why, what a very singularly deep young man
this deep young man must be!"

Hello?
Am i a bad man Don
What
Do you mean this isn't Don?
Is it true
this isn't Don?

Goodbye
to drugs and terror
What
do you mean 'what about Ben Kweller'?
Is it true
Is he evil?

Farewell
God
Thanks for the hot Bod.
The hot bod.

My friend made me listen to the country Bright Eyes record yesterday and it sounded like he superimposed himself over Gilded Palace of Sin. That would be a good thing if I liked his vocals, but I don't, so.

"When The President Talks To God"

when the president talks to god
are the conversations brief or long?
does he ask to rape our womens' rights
or to send poor farm kids off to die?
will the president reccomend an oil hike
when the president talks to god?

when the president talks to god
are the words he chooses hard or soft?
does he resolute all down the line?
is every issue black or white?
does what god say ever change his mind
when the president talks to god?

when the president talks to god
does he fake that drawl or merely nod?
agree which convicts should be killed?
where the prison's built and filled?
which voter fraud must be concealed
when the president talks to god?

when the president talks to god
I wonder which one plays the better cop
we should find some jobs. the ghetto's broke
no, they're lazy, George, I say we don't
just give 'em more liquor stores and dirty coke
that's what god reccomends

when the president talks to god
do they drink beer and go play golf
when they pick which country should we invade
and which heathen souls still can be saved?
yeah I guess god just calls a spade a spade
when the president talks to god

when the president talks to god
does he ever think that maybe he's not?
that that voice is just inside his head
when he kneels down in the presidential bed
does he ever smell his own bullshit
when the president talks to god?

there is so much wrong with that.

kneels down IN the bed.

INSIDE the bed.

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when the president talks to god
are the conversations brief or long?
does he ask to rape our womens' rights
or to send poor farm kids off to die?
will the president reccomend an oil hike
when the president talks to god?

when the president talks to god
are the words he chooses hard or soft?
does he resolute all down the line?
is every issue black or white?
does what god say ever change his mind
when the president talks to god?

when the president talks to god
does he fake that drawl or merely nod?
agree which convicts should be killed?
where the prison's built and filled?
which voter fraud must be concealed
when the president talks to god?

when the president talks to god
I wonder which one plays the better cop
we should find some jobs. the ghetto's broke
no, they're lazy, George, I say we don't
just give 'em more liquor stores and dirty coke
that's what god reccomends

when the president talks to god
do they drink near beer and go play golf
when they pick which country should we invade
and which Muslim souls still can be saved?
yeah I guess god just calls a spade a spade
when the president talks to god

when the president talks to god
does he ever think that maybe he's not?
that that voice is just inside his head
when he kneels down in the presidential bed
does he ever smell his own bullshit
when the president talks to god?
I doubt it

-- kyle (akmonda...), January 28th, 2005.

Not afraid? That's so unnecessarily congratulatory. Making a song like this is easy, and there's an instant base of people who will automatically like it. What disappoints me is that no one has been able to write a song about Bush that isn't painfully obvious and simplistic.

When a narcissist gets political --
Offers something more than treacle --
*Must* he sound like a fool?
Speak in headlines like a tool?
While raging 'bout Bush's misrule?
(Which I admit is quite cruel.)

Kinda like ripping on Bright Eyes on ILM, no?

detachment, disinteredness, indifference--aesthetic theory has so often presented these as the only way to recognize the work of art for what it is, autonomous, selbstandig, that one ends up forgetting that they really mean disinvestments, detachment, indifference, in other words, the refusl to invest oneself and take things seriously. the flaunting of "musical culture" is not a cultural display like others: as regards its social definition, "musical culture" is something other than a quantity of knowledge and experiences combined with the capacity to talk about them. music is the most "spiritual" of the arts of the spirit and a love of music is a guarantee of "spirituality."

when the president talks to god
are the words he chooses hard or soft?

when the president talks to god
are the words he chooses hard or soft?

when the president talks to god
are the words he chooses hard or soft?

when the president talks to god
are the words he chooses hard or soft?

when the president talks to god
are the words he chooses hard or soft?

I took her to a bombed out building,
I don’t know why but I had to start it somewhere,
so it started there.
I said 'Pretend you’ve got some money’,
but she just laughed and said "Oh you’re so funny",
I said "Yeah. Well I can’t see anyone else smiling in here."
Are you sure you want to live like Iraqi people,
you want to see whatever Iraqi people see,
you want to sleep with Iraqi people,
you want to sleep with Iraqi people like me.
But she didn’t understand, she just smiled and held my hand.

Rent a flat above a mosque, cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some flags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
But still you’ll never get it right
‘cos when you’re laid in bed at night
watching bombs hit the walls,
if he called his dad he could stop it all.
You’ll never live like Iraqi people,
you’ll never do whatever Iraqi people do,
you’ll never fail like Iraqi people,
you’ll never watch your life slide out of view,
and dance and not drink or screw,
because there’s nothing else to do.

Sing along with the Iraqi people, sing along and it might just get you through.
Laugh along with the Iraqi people,
laugh along even though they’re laughing at you and the stupid things that you do, because you think that poor is cool.
Like a dog lying in a corner they will bite you and never warn you. Look out they’ll tear your insides out.
'Cos everybody hates a terrorist,
especially one who thinks it’s all such a laugh and the smoke stains and blood will come out in the bath.
You will never understand how it feels to live your life with no meaning or control and with nowhere left to go.
You are amazed that they exist and they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why.
Rent a flat above a mosque, cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some flags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
Still you’ll never get it right
‘cos when you’re laid in bed at night
watching bombs hit the wall,
if he called his dad he could stop it all.
You’ll never live like Iraqi people,
you’ll never do what Iraqi people do,
you’ll never fail like Iraqi people,
you’ll never watch your life slide out of view,
and dance and not drink or screw because there’s nothing else to do. I want to live with Iraqi people like you, etc.

but now, i see all of this "political" stuff, and it makes me feel like ive been had. yes, it is a good thing to protest, to not be completely complacent in your government, and yes, i guess he is braver than most artists. but that said, i cant help but feel like its all a repeat, that none of these ideas are new or even his, and therefore could never be mine or any other fans.

i just can't shake the feeling that the minute an artist starts singing about politics in a manner such as this, perhaps they truly have nothing left to say.

Conor, is that you?

So what were they? Horses, sheep...?

I'm new here.

racial.