Only Entertainment - Bad Religion

Trance fixated on the big blue screen

Your window to the outside, a melancholy dream

A medium upon which you build reality

This episodic currency that everybody needs

Somebody’s delivery lulls you to sleep

The man behind the weather map, the editor-in-chief

They control the world of power and disease

And you cannot suppress your curiosity

See, it’s only entertainment

Superficial urgency, poster-board mentality

Only entertainment

Tightly constrained, the buzz that remains

Is the story of how we run our lives

Many are the people, poor and suffering

From the lack of coverage from the transmission beam

And if it ever gets there, you’ll be offended too

Cause you cannot distinguish chicanery from truth

See, it’s only entertainment

A superficial episode as life continues to unfold

Only entertainment

Controlled and copied, they’ve planted the seed

That sprouts into your picture of the world

Can’t someone protect me (turn away, turn away)

From this electron beam?

(turn away, turn away)

Hey you, Mr. FCC (turn away, turn away)

Have you no advice for me?

(turn away, turn away)

See, it’s only entertainment

Only entertainment (x2)

Unofficial facsimile

Leading you to poverty

Only entertainment (x4)