Here we go, vertigo
Video vertigo
Test for echo

Here we go, in slo-mo
Video vertigo
Test for echo
Test for echo

Some kind of trouble on the sensory screen
Camera curves over caved-in cop cars
Bleacher-creatures, would-be desperadoes
Clutch at plausible deniability

Don't touch that dial
We're in denial
Until the showcase trial on TV

Here we go, vertigo
Video, vertigo
Test for echo

Some kind of pictures on the sense o'clock news
Miles of yellow tape, silhouetted chalk lines
Tough-talking hood boys in pro-team logo knock-offs
Conform to uniforms of some corporate entity

Don't change that station
It's Gangsta Nation
Now crime's in syndication on TV

Oh yeah, what a show
Vertigo
Video vertigo
Test for echo

Touch and go in slo-mo
Video vertigo
Test for echo
Test for echo

Here we go
Vertigo
Video
Vertigo

Some kind of drama live on satellite
Hidden camera coverage from the crime scene to the courtroom
Nail-biting hood boys in borrowed ties and jackets
Clutching at the straws of respectability

Can't do the time?
Don't do the crime
And wind up in the perp walk on TV

Oh, yeah
Here we go, vertigo
Video vertigo
Test for echo

What a show
Vertigo
Video vertigo
Test for echo

Here we go in slo-mo
Video vertigo
Test for echo
Test for echo


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    I think I agree with the general consensus. The song is talking about how we have turned crime and illicit activity into no more than a form of entertainment. Think about it, we have NCIS, Law and Order, Breaking Bad, even House of Cards. Some more white-collar crime than others, but none the less they are crimes that have been written out with some names and turned into entertainment. The term Vertigo, meaning "a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height, or caused by disease affecting the inner ear or the vestibular nerve; giddiness" could be talking about society's level of sensitivity to horrific imagery. I mean, come on, I never really watched NCIS until recently when I stopped on it flipping channels and was unaware that I would be seeing a family beaten to death with a baseball bat and left bleeding on the floor as their 5 year-old daughter walks through the room. Can someone please tell me how exactly that is entertaining? Where are we headed next in entertainment?

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