The Unreality Show
The Unreality Show
- 1The Unreality Show4:01
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The Unreality Show
Once upon a time, sleep came over the land
No-drama Obama was so boring and so bland
The nation rose up and decided to burn things down
Give us Barrabas they said, the rudest dude around
Bread and circus, internet and cable TV
So much more exciting than bland reality
Welcome to the Unreality Show
The goal of the game is to see how low we can go
The drama plays out on millions of TV screens
Fox and Friends over here, over there CNN and MSNBC
Welcome to the Unreality Show
Stay tuned so
You know which way this thing goes
In this corner, who tonight is Bob Mueller going to indict
In the other, the counter-punching kangaroo court puts on a phony fight
You may be confused at first
It might be enough to make you swoon
Heads-of-state act like children
Porn stars are the adults in the room
Republicans love Russians,
Liberals are a fan of the F.B.I.
The absurdity is enough to make you laugh
More likely to make you cry
The blizzard of news is designed for us all to turn a blind eye
To what's really happening in broad daylight as democracy dies.
Welcome to the Unreality Show
You win the game when anything you say goes
Paint your foes as the Enemies of the State
And gin up your support with bickering, division and hate
Welcome to the Unreality Show
Fix Your Eyes On the flickering TV Screen’s glow
Watch the whole planet descend into a fevered dream
As we succumb to the mirage of the phony two-dimensional scene
Welcome to the Unreality Show (repeat, echo, fade out)
This was supposed to be the Overture to a Rock Opera with the same name. I decided I better just get down the bulk of the songs I had for that. Hopefully I'll still pick up the project. I'm not sure what's entailed. So of course I wanted to go with a Who vibe, and at least 1 person picked up on that, so I'm happy. (Same person also said Kinks - and then I realized the fadeout at the end is a little like 'Waterloo Sunset').