500 Channels Lyrics
500 channels of a day-dream stimulation
helps me to resent my life and raise my expectations.
Locked into re-runs, your memories repeating,
and all your ideals seem so self defeating.
For you and yours, the pepsi generation,
and when you're discontent, you change the T.V. station,
And when you hate your life, no qualtities redeeming,
a million brainwashed zombies will always be heard screaming...
"I'll smoke some crack, I'll shoot some dope!"
When theres no enemies,
"I sit and stare at my T.V.
and in my ignorance,
I'll be a slave and sycophant!"
the good leftover crizack could unite the nations.
But now the war machines are mapping our destructions
with poisons over flowing in the chemical seductions.
"I'll smoke some crack, I'll shoot some dope!"
When theres no enemies,
"I sit and stare at my T.V.
and in my ignorance,
I'll be a slave and sycophant!"
my mind will draw a blank.
I'll block out history,
and stare at my T.V.
For me there is no way.
500 channels waste my life away, away...
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i love this song, i love it, i love it, i love it.....such great lyrics!! Choking Victim kick ass
this is one of the best songs ever! good to skate to, and i like the bass line thing at the begining
Just can't get enough of CV
i fully agree with skate or die no cash rules and my band got to play a show with them once by my house wahoo
This song is about a media-obsessed and a media-doused society. They are saying that the populous looks to escape from their reality and to make life easier for themselves by submitting to what they are told.
This is my favorite CV song, as well of my favorite songs all in all!
CV and DK were actually what got me thinking about the world in a different way. Along with "Steal This Book"
500 channels is obviously about TV addicted america, but further than that, it is about the gullible minds of the average american, we interpret this fictional Television aura as what "reality" is. In fact, reality is much more gruesome, and there are greedy forces at work to maintain this unjust system. along with every other CV song, it is social commentary on what a boiling pot of excess and hypocrisy america has become.
this is basicly a FUCK YOU to MTV, which I hate by the way, those nazi's.. awnyways, yes, for those who are stupid, this is the original Leftover crack, when they were 100% RAW! I mean awsome raw. but this is about being ZOMBIFIED by how many channels waste your life.
For me personally, the meaning of the song is something like this: when you feel hopeless you try to escape reality by using drugs and when everything is OK - you feel content and just sit and watch TV. It's about submitting to what yer told, about ignorance and attempts to destroy the symptoms inflicted by the fucked up system but not the actual cause.