John Q. Public - TV Addiction Lyrics

( aka John Quincy Public, circa 1985 )

[A humorous teen-angst toungue-in-cheek punk rock song about television addiction with many references to early eighties television programs. In the spirit of the wonderfully ironic punk band Ramones, yet played in the style of GBH, Vess donated the music, during an imromptu jam session.]

Television everywhere,
radio waves pollute the air,
people people sit and watch,
vegetating on the couch,

The garbage pouring from the screen,
just awaiting to be seen,
by the glassy eyed who sit and sit,
hypnotized by all of it.

tv tv you're addicted,
tv tv your mind's afflicted,
your brain is burned with gamma rays,
you see everything through a haze.

commercials, televangelists,
politicians talking piss,
MTV video music trash,
superstars with clothes that flash.

tv sitcoms with no plot,
soap opera fans get caught up,
in the web of love and romance,
throwing them off of social balance.

tv tv you're addicted,
tv tv your mind's afflicted,
your brain is burned with gamma rays,
you see everything through a haze.

-Hey, how about that Don Johnson...pause (no response from crowd)
-What... nobody likes Don Johnson?

Television everywhere,
radio waves pollute the air,
people people sit and watch,
vegetating on the couch,

The garbage pouring from the screen,
just awaiting to be seen,
by the glassy eyed who sit and sit,
hypnotized by all of it.

tv tv you're addicted,
tv tv your mind's afflicted,
your brain is burned with gamma rays,
you see everything through a haze.

Fantasy Island, Soap, Magnum PI,
Heart to Heart, and Fall Guy,
A-Team, Loveboat, Three's a Crowd,
Quincy, Columbo, and McCloud.

tv sitcoms with no plot,
soap opera fans get caught up,
in the web of love and romance,
throwing them off of social balance.


[Thanks to anon for adding these lyrics]