the Mountain Goats - Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds
Song of the Day
Minnesota Public Radio
4.5 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Today’s Song of the Day is “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds” from the Mountain Goats’ album Days, out August 7.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody's making money, everybody's flying high. |
| 0:09.0 | Who among my brethren is more beautiful than I? |
| 0:12.0 | Who puts out on the carpet? Who knows ahead of time? |
| 0:16.0 | Which camera he should turn to when it's time to say his line. |
| 0:34.7 | I'm watching movies, heart pounding like a drum. |
| 0:37.2 | Call out in the dark for somebody to come do you see what I see |
| 0:39.3 | there's no way all that's fake only so much a good man can take but you can't fight even all alone |
| 0:47.3 | please James get the director on the phone I will rise to this occasion. |
| 0:55.0 | I will rise to this occasion. |
| 0:57.0 | I will rise to this occasion. |
| 1:02.0 | I will rise, rise to this occasion I will rise |
| 1:11.0 | to this occasion |
| 1:14.2 | I'm |
| 1:15.6 | I'm going to this occasion. I lead the agents back into the screening room |
| 1:45.1 | And in the dark we watch the blood flowers bloom |
| 1:48.1 | And then the credits seem to roll on forever |
| 1:51.4 | I know people who can find out who put this thing together |
| 1:54.7 | I'm going to know this thing together After a while, one of them said, listen, Charlie, you're from Hollywood, and the moving pictures are what they used to be, it's true. |
| 2:17.7 | But I'm not sure what you think the Bureau can do. |
| 2:20.8 | Gentlemen, the camera doesn't lie. |
| 2:24.0 | How many more innocent women must die? |
| 2:26.2 | I will rise to this occasion. |
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