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When the President Talks to God

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When the President talks to God
Are the conversations brief or long?
Does he ask to rape our womens rights
And send poor farm kids off to die?
Does God suggest an oil hike
When the President talks to God?

When the President talks to God
Are the consonants all hard or soft?
Is 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 prisons should be 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 them more liqour stores and dirty coke!"
That's what God recommends

When the President talks to God
Do they drink near beer and go play golf
While they pick which countries to invade
Which Muslim souls still can be saved?
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 next to the presidential bed?
Does he ever smell his own bullshit
When the President talks to God?
I doubt it
I doubt it

	

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black Eye Event On Jan 19, 2005

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by choata

16y ago

Well, I remember someone talking about the song's lack of interesting guitar lines or something, although I'm too lazy to recall who, exactly, I have something moderately important to say to that. Because Bright Eyes' and Conor Oberst's music is very folkish (hence why they compare him to folk legend Bob Dylan), the songs tend to be simple because that's just folk music, you know? Things are supposed to be kept simple, clean and fresh, just how folk has always been. It doesn't need fancy guitar riffs and challenging vocals because it's more poetry than anything else. I almost consider Conor Oberst as more of a writer-type icon than anything else; his music is just a nice addition to his breath taking writing.

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by hardvardlawlz

16y ago

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh GWB, we won't miss you one bit.

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by Mogget

20y ago

I just saw bright eyes play this last night..amazing.

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by thejaclyneffect

20y ago

I saw Bright Eyes last night, at The Phoenix in Toronto. Conor & the band did a phenomenal job on this one.

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by arttstar

20y ago

what album is this song on?

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by holden5 16y ago

first day of my life

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by fuckingglow

20y ago

i'm pretty sure it's not on an album yet. he's just playing it live for now. i can say one thing. this song fucking got to me. he sang it with so much emotion.