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