I bought a bourgeois house in the hollywood hills   With a truckload of hundred thousand dollar bills   Man came by to hook up my cable tv   We settled in for the night my baby and me   We switched 'round and 'round 'til half-past dawn   There was fifty-seven channels and nothin' on      Well now home entertainment was my baby's wish   So I hopped into town for a satellite dish   I tied it to the top of my japanese car   I came home and I pointed it out into the stars   A message came back from the great beyond   There's fifty-seven channels and nothin' on      Well we might'a made some friends with some billionaires   We might'a got all nice and friendly if we'd made it upstairs   All I got was a note that said "bye-bye john   Our love is fifty-seven channels and nothin' on"      So I bought a .44 magnum it was solid steel cast   And in the blessed name of elvis well I just let it blast   'til my tv lay in pieces there at my feet   And they busted me for disturbing the almighty peace   Judge said "what you got in your defense son? "   "fifty-seven channels and nothin' on"      I can see by your eyes friend you're just about gone   Fifty-seven channels and nothin' on...