Basic Cable

Aesop Rock

Television, all hail grand pixelated god of

Fantasy, murder scape and perspective

Fuck 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