It's All the Same
Gabriel Duncan

Music will lull you to sleep
Television will make you think it's better
Video killed the radio star
Music just screams you're all sheep
Television says pull it together
We have the lowest rates for your car
Music is all about having to compete
Video's here to sell us the leather
Television just says who we are
Your revenue is obsolete
Our affiliates have you all tethered
We don't even know who they are
 
Don't buy into it; not even me
The world is blinded by everything you see
We rely on these certain so-called archetypes
While the other kids are running around off the hype
The drugs, the bullshit and all the parties
Just 'cause they're running away from their Uncle Santa Clausey
In the movies we always have two roles
One is sweet, and the other's an asshole
I guess it makes sense, to love that romance
It's so easy to fall into the trance
But just think
How a truly devoted friendship is a relationship
But just think
How our animals are captive friends
And just think
How it's all just mathematics in the end
 
Booze plus wife
Is pain and strife
But the never dying love
Is what raises them above
So happily ever after or not
They go on and live with what they've fought
To get, I guess, It's true, I'd even bet
That before this night is done
All ends well in never-never land again
But that's only what Disney had planned
 
Or what the records did, too
When radio was new
But radio became media
And radio was thrown in the stew
Clear Channel, have you heard of it
Maybe, perhaps MTV
They're all just affiliates of ABC
But PBS is sponsored by the double C, too
And the NPR, PRI, and KTVU2
Are out to make profits on all that you do
The money you make, may seem to be more
But the percentages conglomerates make
Would make you wish you did more
To support those around you
And think for yourself
These words are so dangerous
Some day they might hit the shelf
Along with the others that were damned to an eternal hell
Just because it couldn't balance on their fragile little shell