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 your 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
 
  
  Oh it's always right, the perfect light, the dark of night
 
 Give up the world, give up your life 'cause you cannot fight the television
  
 
 Ooh television television
 
 Ooh the 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 junkie trying to get a gram
 
 Look at the betting man,
 
 Look at him folding on the better hand
  
 
 Oh its always right, the fearless light, the dark of night
 
 Give up the world, give up your life 'cause you cannot fight the television
  
 
 Ooh television television
 
 Ooh the television television
 
 Oh the television
  
 
 Look at me hypnotized and half alive,
 
 maybe its 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
  
 
 The television television
 
 Ooh television television
 
 Oooohh give me tits and politicians!
 
 Give me death and demolition!
 
 Give me glamour and sedition!