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Transfixated on the big blue screen
Your window to the outside, a melancholy dream
A medium upon which you build reality
This episodic currency that everybody needs
Somebody's delivery lulls you to sleep
The man behind the weather map, the editor in chief
They control two worlds - the power and disease
And you cannot suppress your curiosity
See it's only entertainment
Superficial urgency, posterboard mentality
Only entertainment
Tightly constrained, the buzz that remains
Is the story of how we run our lives
Hey, many are the people poor and suffering
From the lack of coverage, from the transmission beam
And if it ever gets here you'll be offended too
'Cause you cannot distinguish chicanery from truth
See it's only entertainment
A superficial episode as life continues to unfold
Only entertainment
Controlled and copied, they've planted the seed
That sprouts into your picture of the world
Can't someone protect me (turn away, turn away)
From this electron beam (turn away, turn away)
Hey you, Mr. FCC (turn away, turn away)
Have you no advice for me? (turn away, turn away, turn away, turn away)
See it's only entertainment (turn away, turn away, turn away, turn away)
Only entertainment
Only entertainment
Unoffical facts simply leading you to poverty
Only entertainment
Only entertainment
Only entertainment
Your window to the outside, a melancholy dream
A medium upon which you build reality
This episodic currency that everybody needs
The man behind the weather map, the editor in chief
They control two worlds - the power and disease
And you cannot suppress your curiosity
Superficial urgency, posterboard mentality
Only entertainment
Tightly constrained, the buzz that remains
Is the story of how we run our lives
From the lack of coverage, from the transmission beam
And if it ever gets here you'll be offended too
'Cause you cannot distinguish chicanery from truth
A superficial episode as life continues to unfold
Only entertainment
Controlled and copied, they've planted the seed
That sprouts into your picture of the world
From this electron beam (turn away, turn away)
Hey you, Mr. FCC (turn away, turn away)
Have you no advice for me? (turn away, turn away, turn away, turn away)
Only entertainment
Only entertainment
Unoffical facts simply leading you to poverty
Only entertainment
Only entertainment
Only entertainment
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It's about the media i.e.newspapers, television nowadays elctronic sources such as the internet and how they only tell the public certain information about what is going on in the fucking world. It's about how they bullshit us by making us look through only a tiny scope and see only certain events of what is happening. It's controlled by FCC so they say they're 'protecting' us but they're really just giving us faded and drunken view of what is really happening. They keep us in the dark, talking only of entertainment or murders and sports. They never talk of politics etc and other important subjects, it's just another way to keep society ignorrant. It never shows you the truth, but what you want.
@agnostic soldier The FCC doesn't do any of that.
@agnostic soldier The FCC doesn't do any of that.
agnostic soldier is right, but it also tells us that the storys you hear arent always acurate and that they are, in the end, for ur entertainment and if they can change a story to make a good headline they will.
In my opinion, Bad Religion's best song made thus far.
This song deserves more praise. Easily the best on the album, an excellent closer, and easily one of their premium songs.
BR has a way of expressing people's desires for useless knowledge that the media continually feeds to them through this screen that catches our vision, keeping our gaze tied to the its vibrant glow. They keep showing the public what they want to see, which is somehting that will entertain them. Society doesn't care about politics, world issues, or anything outside their own pathetic wastes of life. And the media knows this, which is why it can keep getting away with sports stories, celebrity info, right wing, left wing nonsense, natural disasters that apparently affect everyone (or at least that's what they'd lead you to believe). The media is only entertainment. Genius, just genius! In any case, one of BR's best songs, easily, beyond the shadow of a doubt
FCC have quite some power/ constitutional- freedom of speech vs. "whats acceptable in public interest" -determined by the FCC
head commisioners appointed by the president himself. Jurisdiction to regulate all communications- radio TV phone INTERNET and so on.. in all the states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
yikes
nice song