Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Television, The Drug Of The Nation Lyrics
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
T.V., I.T. satellite links
our United States of
unconciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely
addictive
the methadone metronome pumping out
150
channels 24 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
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
T.V. is it the
reflector or the director?
Does it imitate us or do we
imitate it
Because a child watches 1500 murders before
he's
twelve years old and 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 Allownace)
On Television.
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 . . .
