"television Lyrics - Singles - The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

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 

TV, it satallite links 

Our United States of Unconsciousness 

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 

TV 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 too close 

to the... 

Television, the drug of the nation 

Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation 

TV... 

is the stomping ground for political candidates 

Where bears in the woods 

are chased by Grecian Formula'd bald eagles 

TV...is mechanized politics 

remote control over the masses 

co-sponsored 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 fast food 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 

TV, Is it the reflector or the director? 

Does it imitate us or do we imitate it? 

Because a child watches over 1500 murders 

before he's 12 years old 

And we wonder how we've created a Jason generation 

that learns to laugh rather than abhor the horror 

TV 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 

Now go but the soft drink 

Well, the only cola that I support 

would be a union C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Allowance) 

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 heavily breasted 

beer and car commercials 

CNNESPNABCTNT but mostly B.S. 

Where oxymoronic language like 

"virtually spotless", "fresh frozen" 

"light yet filling" and "military intelligence" 

have become standard 

TV 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" 

TV 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 

TV is the only wet nurse 

that would create a cripple 

Television, the drug of the nation 

Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation