Before that sacred holy flickering tv-screen You′re served commercials day-time fakes and tv-priests You keep your VCR running almost constantly Afraid to miss out on something happening on channel three
You zap from channel one to two look what they have done to you You live from staged realities and fakes Channel three then four and five you double check your tv-guide Re-enacted lives to keep you awake
Life is served Here every taste will find our satisfaction guarantee On the never sleeping flickering screen
You keep watching this truly weird masquarade The flickering screen enchants you your truly all enslaved
Nostalgia sports and comedies, cops cartoons and tragedies Remote control at hand you sit enslaved Washing powder and apple pies re-runs soaps and Jesus Christ Anytime is time to zap the world away
Throw away your television Time to make this clean decision Master waits for it′s collision now It′s a repeat of a story told It′s a repeat and it′s getting old
Throw away your television Make a break big intermission Recreate your super vision now It′s a repeat of a story told It′s a repeat and it′s getting old
[chorus:] Renegades with fancy gauges Slay the plague for it′s contagious Pull the plug and take the stages Throw away your television now
Throw away your television Take the noose off your ambition Reinvent your intuition now It′s a repeat of a story told It′s a repeat and it′s getting old
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Throw away your television Salivate to repetition Levitate this ill condition now It′s a repeat
Look at the hottie in the tight jeans, look at the pipe dreams, look at the fat man burst at the seams. Look at the captain with the galaxy right off his balcony. Look at the science and the alchemy. Look at the sirens on the cop cars, look at the pop stars, look at the convicts filing the bars. Look at the wife, look at the knife, look at the pom-pom prom queen scream and scream and run for her life.
It′s always right, the perfect light in the dark of night. Give up the world, give up your life, ′cause you cannot fight the television. Television, television.
Look at them trying to get the flag higher, look at the quagmire, look at the tread separate from the tire. Look at the junky trying to get a gram, look at the betting man, look at him folding on the better hand.
It′s always right, the fearless light in the dark of night. Give up the world, give up your life, ′cause you cannot fight the television. Television, television.
Look at me hypnotized and half alive, maybe it′s four or five, some parts are sleeping, some parts are paralyzed. Just one more minute... just one more minute... I think I′m almost in it.
Television, television. Give me tits and politicians. Give me death and demolition. Give me glamour and sedition. Television.