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M.T.V. Get Off the Air
Dead Kennedys
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It will also be on the album
Which is gonna be called "Frankenchrist"
Hey up Ray don't start without me
So watch for it wherever interesting fresbees are sold
Fun, fun, fun in a fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer
Fun, fun, fun in a fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer
Hi, I'm your video DJ
I always talk like I'm wigged out on Quaaludes
I wear a satin baseball cap everywhere I go
My job is to help destroy what's left of your imagination
By feeding you endless doses of sugar-coated piles of garbage
Don't create, ease the date
The next show at home and swag on that dial
We have our way and you won't believe
This is the future of rock and roll
And this is a song called "MTV, get off the air"
How far will you go, how low will you stoop
To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill?
You've turned rock and roll rebellion into Pat Boone sedation
Making sure that nothing's left to the imagination
MTV, get off the
MTV, get off the
MTV, get off the air
MTV, get off the
MTV, get off the
MTV, get off the air
Get off the air
See the latest rejects from the Muppet Show
Shake their tits and their dicks as they lip-sync on screen
There's something I don't like about a band who always smiles
Another tax write-off for some schmuck who doesn't care
MTV, get off the
MTV, get off the
MTV, get off the air
MTV, get off the
MTV, get off the
MTV, get off the air
Get off the air
Get off the air
Get off the air
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And so it was our beloved corporate gods
Claimed they created rock video
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
As commercial TV has in 25
"It's the new frontier," they say
"Wide open, anything can happen"
But you've got a lot of nerve to call yourself a pioneer
If you goddamn conservatives take real chances
Tin-eared, graph-paper-brained
Accountants instead of music fans
Call all the shots by record companies now
The lowest common denominator rules
Forget honesty, creativity
The dumbest buy the mostest, that's the name of the game
Sales are slumping, no one will say why
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?
MTV, get off the air now
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