The Pop Music Update

Apparently, the group Bright Eyes performed on the Tonight Show last night. It should suffice it to say that my ability to gauge popular music ended years ago, sometime in the late '90's, especially after I started working for a living. The group apparently gets pretty good reviews. Again, I have no friggin' clue who they are.

Apparently, according to co-worker JE, Bright Eyes broke out a song that doesn't appear on their current album, but is available for free on the Internet (thank you, Al Gore). Apparently, the lead singer bears some dislike for our President. Here are the lyrics...

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

I'm sure there are plenty of folks on the left who find the lyrics brilliant. Personally, I'll take a pass on tearing apart the accuracy and simply note that music can serve as a pretty good outlet for stupidity. As for those extolling these words... well, if I spent time writing a poem mocking Jesse Jackson's religious beliefs and diction, I'd probably be called a bigot by some of the same people who'd praise this song. If this song gains any popularity, it will go a long way to explaining why Red America thinks Blue America's full of impolite secularist jerks with an overriding sense of superiority.

But hey, to be frank, I never understood protest music anyway. I think Bob Dylan's importance is gloriously overstated by baby boomers who think their generation's more significant than it really is. But that's a post for another time.