Stooges

Unsure of what is safe of which to speak
Bland broadcasts balance blank banality
They seek to push more products than last week
I know they are not aiming them at me

The target audience does not know Greek
From Greco-Roman but they cannot see
The blindness through the blandness anyway
But first this is today on NBC

You lost me at hello if you must know
Good morning America as you say
Tightroping through the time zones red and blue
Yesterday tuned in tomorrow today

The kids are trying crystal meth and so
No fries with that just supersize the lies
Rates of childhood obesity might slow
Looking on the bright side is what we do

Pork to the powerful tweak to the weak
The rich get richer and around we go
The kids are brilliant bittersweet and bleak
They know that nothing on TV is true

If someone asked them they could tell you how
To fix things but nobody wants to hear
You are busy and cannot listen now
You wake up in the morning gnawed by fear

How strange it is to grow up in Bush-years
Sort of like dog-years only more absurd
The second time around is even worse
And there will be a third time I have heard

Push products and push people and push fears
Disperse them like stars through the universe
Push terror and push torture and push tears
Our irony will never be the same

The first time silly second time scary
No one knows anything no one to blame
But it is all just a video game
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+Steven Curtis Lance



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