One Nation under God  has turned into  One Nation under the influence  of one drug    Television, the drug of the Nation  Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation    T.V., it satellite links  our United States of unconciousness  Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive  the methadone metronome pumping out  a 150 channels 24 hours a day  you can flip through all of them  and still there's nothing worth watching    T.V. is the reason why less than ten percent of our  Nation reads books daily  Why most people think Central America  means Kansas  Socialism means unamerican  and Apartheid is a new headache remedy    absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us  It shapes our minds the most  maybe the mother of our Nation  should remind us  that we're sitting to close to. . .    Television, the drug of the Nation  Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation    T.V. is  the stomping ground for political candidates  Where bears in the woods  are chased by Grecian Formula'd  bald eagles    T.V. is mechanized politic's  remote control over the masses  co-sponsered by environmentally safe gases  watch for the PBS special    It's the perpetuation of the two party system  where image takes precedence over wisdom  Where sound bite politics are served to  the fastfood culture    Where straight teeth in your mouth  are more important than the words  that come out of it  Race baiting is the way to get selected  Willie Horton or  Will he not get elected on . . .    Television, the drug of the Nation  Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation    T.V. is it the reflector or the director?  Does it imitate us or do we imitate it  Because a child watches 1500 murders before he's  twelve years old and we wonder how we've created  a Jason generation that learns to laugh  rather than abhor the horror    T.V. is the place where  armchair generals and quarterbacks can  experience first hand  the excitement of video warfare  as the theme song is sung in the background    Sugar sweet sitcoms  that leave us with a bad actor taste while  pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars  You saw the video  You heard the soundtrack  Well now go buy the soft drink  Well, the only cola that I support  would be a union C.O.L.A. (Cost of Living Allowance)  On Television.    Television, the drug of the Nation  Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation    Back again, "New and Improved",  we return to our irregularly programmed schedule  hidden cleverly between heavy breasted  beer and car commericals    CNN ESPN ABC TNT but mostly B.S.  Where oxymoronic language like  "virtually spotless" "fresh frozen"  "light yet filling" and "military intelligence"  have become standard    T.V. is the place where phrases are redefined  like "recession" to "necessary downturn"  "crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"  "Civilian death" to "collateral damages"  and being killed by your own Army  is now called "friendly fire"    T.V. is the place where the pursuit  of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia  Where toothpaste and cars have become sex objects  Where imagination is sucked out of children  by a cathode ray nipple  T.V. is the only wet nurse  that would create a cripple    Television, the drug of the Nation  Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation  On Television . . .