Bright Eyes - When the President Talks To God

[Trajan]

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Bright Eyes rocks The Tonight Show with a scathing attack on the President. This video has caused quite a stir in the blogosphere.

When The President Talks To God

When the president talks to God
Are the conversations brief or long?
Does he ask to rape our women's 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 'em more liquor 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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THIS is powerful ... if you havent seen it, you must ...

[LastKnight]

1. Leno seemed none too pleased...

wonder if that was planned... his voice was kinda shaky during the tune, but maybe thats his style im not familiar with this stuff, but i might go buy a cd now... just to see if hes any good... lol

-LK

[RevolutionStartsNow]

2. He's great, get "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning"

which is truly his masterpiece effort.

Another great anti-war song on there, called "Landlocked Blues".

[LastKnight]

3. he had on country-ish attire

but his music didnt exactly jive with it, but maybe hes just eccentric... what genre would you qualify him as?

-LK

[Trajan]

4. He is quite different ....

Acoustic-Poet-Troubador .... Somewhat Bob Dylan-ish ....

There is no doubt he does not fit the mold of media star in this day and age: but his brutal honesty is a breath of fresh air to many ...

[LastKnight]

5. awesome... im gonna go pick some of his stuff up tomorrow then...

any particular disk or disks you would suggest?

-LK

[Trajan]

6. He has two new CD's, released simultaneously this year ...

Here is a blurb from his website ... http://www.saddle-creek.com/home.html

Conor Oberst is his name ...

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Conor’s new songs are undeniably his finest to date. These new compositions have been rolled into two separate, cohesive records: I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, which will simultaneously be released on January 24th. While a plethora of this new material was born from an early 2003 relocation to Manhattan, 2004 saw Conor’s return to Presto! Studios in Lincoln to record with long time collaborator and producer Mike Mogis.

Recording since the age of 13 and tagged “rock’s boy genius” by the music press for the past few years, these two albums provide unequivocal proof that the now 24 year-old Oberst belongs to the lineage of great American songwriters. These albums are a soundly articulated slice of modern American life rolled into two very different records. The new songs are bursting with all of the heartfelt poetry for which Bright Eyes records have earned their acclaim. The rough edges are still there — the splintering of a note held too long, the crack of the voice as it reaches slightly too far, the inadvertent thump of a thumb against a fret — but there is a glorious new level of depth and texture to the writing and delivery. Recorded back-to-back and scheduled to be released simultaneously, more out of necessity than any grand art plan, the two albums work in tandem to elucidate both sides of Conor’s recent creative output.

The first (as in, the first to be laid down on tape) is titled I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning; a country-tinged mélange of Conor’s finest acoustic songs, featuring guest vocal appearances from Emmylou Harris and Jim James (My Morning Jacket).

The second album Oberst recorded, Digital Ash In A Digital Urn, is a more produced, band-centric album featuring cameo appearances by Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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[RevolutionStartsNow]

12. My favorites are:

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (lots of acoustic, country-type stuff but not at all country music)

and

Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil (a must-have)

Get those 2 and you will be very happy. :)

[JanMichael]

7. That was great!!! Loved it.

I imagine repukes were mighty uncomfortable during that bit as his voice was crystal clear and one couldn't miss a thing he said.

[Trajan]

10. Oh yeah ....

EVERY word was out there, crystal clear ....

He reminds me of a young Dylan .. brash and sure that the content of his poetry will win his audience, not his nontraditional delivery ....

I love power songs like that: NOT power in an electronic sense, but in a cerebral, emotional sense ....

[AlCzervik]

8. You can get the song for free at Itunes.

[Trajan]

11. The top of the thread has a link as well ...

[Maestro]

9. I really like Bright Eyes

Here is one of my protest mixes with that very song....



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