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 carcasses, we hang them up on canvasses   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 carcasses and hang them up on canvasses   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 carcass, 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)