The Hold Steady - Spectres lyrics

Projectionists and publicists, athletes and comedians Photographers and columnists, subscribers and enthusiasts Participants and spectators, the ragers and the clever kids We're all actors and actresses I want to thank you all for having me A special thanks to the academy For birthing me and blessing me With this fantastic opportunity To let the light shine down on me Now let us grieve for dead celebrities We know them all from all the magazines We photograph the carca**es, we hang them up on canva**es We're all actors and actresses Maybe our anxiety Lives in the spaces in between Who we really are And what we want to be And the things that we let other people see When all we really want Is to be in magazines Found dead on dirty mattresses, bleeding through the bandages Cops are surveying the damages and sending out for sandwiches They photographed the carca**es and hang them up on canva**es We're all actors and actresses I guess we all got pretty close I guess we all got pretty close I guess we all got pretty close to the roles we chose to play I guess we all got pretty close, i swear i saw him right by 7a We see our friends six pages and right behind the president (we're actors and we're actresses) The office girls are awful with their take on what went wrong with him (we're actors and we're actresses) They're covering the carca**, they're bleeding and remembering (we're actors and we're actresses) We're all actors and actresses, we're all actors and actresses (we're actors and we're actresses)