Television The Drug Of The Nation

One Nation under God
 Has turned into
 One Nation under the influence
 Of one drug
 Television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
 On television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
 T.V., it's satellite links
 Our United States of unconciousness
 Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
 The methadone metronome pumping out
 A hundred and fifty channels twentyfour hours a day
 You can flip through all of them
 And still there's nothing worth watching
 T.V. is the reason why less than ten percent of our
 Nation reads books daily
 Why most people think Central America
 Means Kansas
 Socialism means unamerican
 And Apartheid is a new headache remedy
 Absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
 It shapes our minds the most
 Maybe the mother of our Nation
 Should remind us
 That we're sitting to close to
 Television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
 On television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
 T.V. is
 The stomping ground for political candidates
 Where bears in the woods
 Are chased by Grecian Formula'd
 Bald eagles
 T.V. is mechanized politic's
 Remote control over the masses
 Co-sponsered by environmentally safe gases
 Watch for the PBS special
 It's the perpetuation of the two party system
 Where image takes precedence over wisdom
 Where sound bite politics are served to
 The fastfood culture
 Where straight teeth in your mouth
 Are more important than the words
 That come out of it
 Race baiting is the way to get selected
 Willie Horton or
 Will he not get elected on
 Television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
 On television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
 T.V. is it the reflector or the director?
 Does it imitate us or do we imitate it
 Because a child watches fifteen hundred murders before he's
 Twelve years old and then we wonder how we've created
 A Jason generation that learns to laugh
 Rather than abhor the horror
 T.V. is the place where
 Armchair generals and quarterbacks can
 Experience first hand
 The excitement of video warfare
 As the theme song is sung in the background
 Sugar sweet sitcoms
 That leave us with a bad actor taste while
 Pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars
 You saw the video
 You heard the soundtrack
 Well now go buy the soft drink
 Well, the only cola that I support
 Would be a union C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Allowance)
 On Television
 Television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
 On television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
 Back again, "New and Improved"
 We return to our irregularly programmed schedule
 Hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
 Beer and car commericals
 CNN ESPN ABC TNT but mostly B.S.
 Where oxymoronic language like
 "Virtually spotless" "fresh frozen"
 "Light yet filling" and "military intelligence"
 Have become standard
 T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined
 Like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
 "Crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
 "Civilian death" to "collateral damages"
 And being killed by your own Army
 Is now called "friendly fire"
 T.V. is the place where the pursuit
 Of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia
 Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects
 Where imagination is sucked out of children
 By a cathode ray nipple
 T.V. is the only wet nurse
 That would create a cripple
 Television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
 On television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
 On television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
 On television, the drug of the Nation
 Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation