Bandage for a Bleeding Heart - Aidan Hawken

Catalogs filled with shiny new things

Perfect children swinging on their swings

Matching napkins for matching plates

Matching forks and knives spoon feed their brains

Bandage for a bleeding heart

Bandage for a bleeding heart

If only you could have a fresh start

TV is your work of art

TV is your work of art

It’s a bandage for a bleeding heart

You buy your house

You buy your car

Your wife and kids

And who you are

Computer screen

TV set

Where what you see

Is what you get

Look at your body

Look at your body

It’s gone

Houses lined up all in a row

Friendly neighbors watch their flowers grow

TV dinners sit on magazines

Perfect pictures that spoon feed you dreams

Bandage for a bleeding heart

Bandage for a bleeding heart

When did this madness start

TV is you work of art

TV is your work of art

It’s a bandage for a bleeding heart

The air is too thick to breath

The air is too thick to see

The red light prison

On the freeway

Golden handcuffs around your wrist

Golden handcuffs around you wrists

You don’t know how it can

To this

The rain comes pouring down

The rain can’t help you now

Once your city’s burning

Your matching napkins

Your matching plates

Your shiny car and freeways

Don’t believe in heaven

You buy your house

You buy you car

Your wife and kids

And who you are

Computer screen

TV set

What you see

Is what you get

Bandage for a bleeding heart…