MTV Get Off the Air

Album: Frankenchrist (1985)
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  • Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair
    Flame up the herb
    Woof down the beer

    Hi
    I'm your video DJ
    I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
    I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go

    My job is to help destroy
    What's left of your imagination
    By feeding you endless doses
    Of sugar-coated mindless garbage

    So don't create
    Be sedate
    Be a vegetable at home
    And thwack on that dial
    If we have our way even you will believe
    This is the future of rock and roll

    How far will you go
    How low will you stoop
    To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill

    You've turned rock and roll rebellion
    Into Pat Boone sedation
    Making sure nothing's left to the imagination

    M.T.V. Get off the
    M.T.V. Get off the
    M.T.V. Get off the air
    Get off the air

    See the latest rejects from the muppet show
    Wag their tits and their dicks
    As they lip-synch on screen
    There's something I don't like
    About a band who always smiles
    Another tax write-off
    For some schmuck who doesn't care

    M.T.V. Get off the
    M.T.V. Get off the
    M.T.V. Get off the air
    Get off the air

    And so it was
    Our beloved corporate gods
    Claimed they created rock video
    Allowing it to sink as low in one year
    As commercial TV has in 25
    "It's the new frontier," they say
    It's wide open, anything can happen
    But you've got a lot of nerve
    To call yourself a pioneer
    When you're too god-damn conservative
    To take real chances.

    Tin-eared
    Graph-paper brained accountants
    Instead of music fans
    Call all the shots at giant record companies now

    The lowest common denominator rules
    Forget honesty
    Forget creativity
    The dumbest buy the mostest
    That's the name of the game

    But sales are slumping
    And no one will say why
    Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?

    M.T.V. - Get off the air!
    NOW! Writer/s: Darren Henley, Eric Reed Boucher, Geoffrey Lyall, Raymond John Pepperelle
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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