Turn On The TV

By Roger Taylor (drummer from the rock group Queen)

B-side of I Wanna Testify, 1977

Collect your senses and your wits
What you've left of your mind
All the so called modern caring virtues
Are the moral teaching you can find

So let's turn on the TV
You want dead cells, let's turn ourselves off
Turn on the TV as it takes a horizontal hold
On all your energy

Just gotta get, gotta get, gotta go
Gotta get up out of here
Just gotta get, gotta get, gotta go
Gotta get up out of here

We go to the place over the hill
Where the grass is greener
Where the life is sweeter
But all the time we know
That it never is
(That it never is, that it never is, that it never is)
And it's very likely
That we never will

Found myself talking to one
Of those quadraphonic pioneers
He said give up that stereo
Boy I said I've only got two ears
Things ain't so black and white
When gray is the color of my best friend's hair
Turn on the TV and create some grayness
Circulating in the air

Just gotta get, gotta get, gotta go
Gotta get up out of here
Just gotta get, gotta get, gotta go
Gotta get up out of here
Here

We go to the place over the hill
Where the grass is greener
Where the life is sweeter
But all the time we know

That it never is
(That it never is, that it never is, that it never is)
And it's very likely
That we never will