A Little Uncanny-Conor Oberst

[00:29.09]You started drinking the Kool-Aid [00:32.46]We were taking the bait [00:35.96]We were talking big talk [00:39.30]Never playing it safe [00:42.74]Looking good as Jane Fonda [00:46.09]On a Vietnam tank [00:49.40]Can't get something for nothing [00:51.89]Have to energize your base [00:54.71]But she was young enough [00:56.75]She was blonde enough [00:58.37]She was about a perfect ten [01:02.01]Had millions of admirers but not one single friend [01:08.66]And it's a, it's a little uncanny [01:12.81]what she managed to do [01:15.31]Become a symbol for a pain she never knew [01:36.13]You know old Ronnie Reagan [01:39.32]He was a shoe salesman's son [01:42.53]He got himself in the movies [01:45.95]He impressed everyone [01:49.20]He thought trial by fire [01:52.63]Was America's fate [01:55.92]He made a joke of the poor people [01:58.53]And that made him a saint [02:01.34]But he was tan enough, he was rich enough [02:05.14]He was handsome like John Wayne [02:08.41]And there was no one at the country club [02:11.80]Who didn't feel the same [02:15.30]But it's a, it's a little uncanny [02:19.18]What he managed to do [02:21.86]Got me to read those Russian authors through and through [02:55.69]I miss Christopher Hitchens [02:58.78]I miss Oliver Sacks [03:02.23]I miss poor Robin Williams [03:05.47]I miss Sylvia Plath [03:08.84]Every morning's a desert [03:12.06]Every night is a flood [03:15.20]They say a party can kill you [03:17.84]Well sometimes I wish it would [03:20.44]But I'll get strong enough, I'll be man enough [03:24.48]To keep myself in check [03:27.98]'Cause all my friends that flew to town [03:31.20]Said that's what they expect [03:34.59]But it's a, it's a little uncanny [03:38.72]What they managed to do [03:41.21]Made me admit to things I knew were never true