They gave me useless education/And a sub-prime loan on a craftsman home/Keep my prescriptions filled/And now I can’t get off but I can kind of deal/Oh with being bored in the USA/Oh just a little bored in the USA/Save me president Jesus/I’m bored in the USA
from Bored in the USA lyrics by Father John Misty
Laugh-track add confounds, but the melody move from guitar to keys compliments the folk torch song send-up of the absurdities of young American citizenship perfectly. As truthful a statement of upper-middle class white existence pervading a gentrifying ‘hood near you that isn’t a Portlandia sketch.
