Basic Cable lyrics

Artist  : Aesop Rock 
Song : Basic Cable



 Send "Basic Cable" Ringtone to your Cell 

 television, all hail grand pixelated god of
fantasy, murder scape and perspective
f**k a sore channel changed digit
I sit with a nasty network intervenes plan
with a stable diet of my cable pirate
yo, the doctor is in, the doctor is on
born the bastard son of static radiance cloned to
welcome in every home
lead a blue screen, bruised dream canope
victim of the cursed nursed Technicolor drunk
support team
ooh, I love all advertisements
though accused by robot news casters who capture
and pollute
spoon fed hazardous fog to joy luck catholic
squad
please take me, please calm me, please make me a
zombie
please I want to donate my brain to the monstrous
Panasonic profit
now, twenty first century plagued
dispersed to wide eyed glamour addict patients
telecast patrons
blue be the propaganda banners, well, sure I'll
be a Marine
with a clean sword and blue uniform, it only
takes a dollar and a dream
and I abide great idiot box power supply, fuzz
vapor,
black out of New York, hey honey, get the
generator
I'm in a doom, doom generation, pacin', ancient
electric secret
never sleepin' to miss the AM oasis
my name is a wired heart, sloppy obligation
turn my stilt into my guilt and have a chatter
box blame frame adjacent station
make reality scrambled and suck the life out of a
hidden vandal
and loving every minute of the gimmick, change
the channel

plug it in, turn it on, prop me up against the
couch
lights out, I ain't ever gonna have to leave my
house
satellite dish, get up on my wish list, turn me
to a tyrant
let my clean spirit dissolve through the
appliance

plug it in, turn it on, be my mother when she's
gone, great
wipe the spittle off my chinny-chin during the
breaks
if I gotta go blind I'mma do it for the love of
all television kind
and that's fine, and that's fine...

make me a star, I wanna touch gold
hold me suspended in a dream, mearly inches from
the screen
deleted passions sacrificed to one electron
monster
crucify my little future to the monitor
damn it feels good, turn on, tune in
 
zoom in to hug the bug up in your family function
but the children seem to love it
yes mother, me and wild discovery
and heard the static flock to where I sleep
by the glow of that magic box big speaker
stereo mastered often kill the freak seekers,
eyes spiraling
tangled in the star spangled wiring
I can turn from toxicated visuals
and all the kings horses abort the loyalty to
royalty
f**k the fortress
riddle me with glee, hoist the end all
telepromter above my sleeping head
I'll be dead by morning anyway
color my values with mundane humor in thirty
minute tickets
to feel the magnetic seal picket censorship
I want commercials twenty four-seven
I wanna shop from my bed and set an
example for all my overworked, underpaid brethren
I bond with a six string(?) correspondence
and lurking circuitry circus
with allegiance pledged beyond the glass surface
adamant students within the fine school of
possessed graduate catalysts
channel zero addict, immaculate
it goes- big screen, little screen, any screen'll
do
just let me hold the controller and I won't have
to murder you

plug it in, turn it on, let my little eyes glaze
twenty screens lined up along the borders of the
maze
I wanna see the five day forecast, fourteen days
in advance
so I can get my two weeks notice every time the
sun dance

plug it in, turn it on, silent fix better than
nothing
let a once divine soul feel the functions of the
hypnotist
the viciousness, ridiculous, peaking a dummy's
interest
touch the power button meet your maker, ain't
that something?

plug it in, turn it on, say goodbye to Sunday
afternoon
fix the antenna, sit back and let disaster bloom
it's a beautiful sight, with a most ugly
intention
but I taste it everyday and bathe inside the
consequences

plug it in, turn it on, never once have you
talked back to me
your majesty, I love you, I despise you
my everyday is sitcom, soaps, news, bad
dramatization
come along with me, my friend for the most
glorious sensation