This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by scytheye 

Cover art for This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds) lyrics by Peter Gabriel

This song is most likely a criticism of lazy television watchers. Especially how they vicariously live through the TV set without ever doing a thing. The stuff in the present tense is mocking of what is going on in the brain when you watch TV, which - by the way - induces the same brain patterns as staring at a wall.

My Interpretation