Turn Off Your TV

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Turn Off Your TV

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Turn off your tv
Don't you listen to the voices
Don't listen to the voices as they lie to you
Turn off your tv
Don't you listen to the voices
Don't listen to the voices as they lie to you

Don't you think it's strange they all sound the same
Tell us the reason we should be upset?
And if you think it doesn't seem quite right
Well, that's a view you should reject

Turn off your tv
Don't you listen to the voices
Don't listen to the voices as they lie to you
Turn off your tv
Don't you listen to the voices
Don't listen to the voices as they lie to you

Every single channel, they all seem to say
The government can help all of us come through
They don't want you and I to comprehend
All the real power lies with me and you

Turn off your tv
Don't you listen to the voices
Don't listen to the voices as they lie to you
Turn off your tv
Don't you listen to the voices
Don't listen to the voices as they lie to you

Social studies replaced civics class
'Cause they don't want you to know your rights
They want you to submit to their demands
They don't want you to learn to fight

Turn off your tv
Don't you listen to the voices
Don't listen to the voices as they lie to you
Turn off your tv
Don't you listen to the voices
Don't listen to the voices as they lie to you
Don't listen to the voices as they lie to you
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Re: Turn Off Your TV

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Turn off your TV
let's start again
Just take a deep breath
and count to ten

It's alright, It's alright
We're seeing it all in black and white
It's alright, It's alright
Just something to do every night

Turn out the dash light
and sit in the dark
There's so much to find out
where do we start?

It's okay, It's okay
You know it's meant to be this way
It's okay, It's okay
We can relive yesterday

I felt your electricity
Let's shake off this negativity

Maybe there's something
to do instead
Turn off your TV
let's go to bed
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Turn Off Your TV
by glennny

What is wrong with taking it outside
passers by won’t believe what they see
it’s been so long since I hung in the blue room
sunshine spilling all over me

hold on, wait up, I gotta see this
the great educator told me “cease and desist”

Turn off your TV
and go hug anyone
Turn off your TV
and go kiss anyone
Turn off your TV
And go phuck an appropriate person
for the sake of your remaining humanity

I tell you what, it’s kinda fun out here
if,and, or, but I can know what to feel
There seems to be a lack of a soundtrack
discordant warring cacophony

hold on, wait up, I can’t believe this
a misunderstanding, now you’re raising your fists

Turn off your TV
take a hit anywhere
Turn off your TV
go kick it anywhere
Turn off your TV
take a trip anywhere
for the sake of your remaining humanity

I’m so ashamed, I want to go home now
nobody’s to blame, nobody but me
the rules of the game, they seem to be living
perhaps even a little bit more than me

hold on, wait up, this really sucks
I can’t change the channel and I’m down on my luck

Turn off your TV
don’t be the every man
Turn off your TV
just be a cameraman
Turn off your TV
and look for the every man
while you still have a shred of dignity
Turn off your TV
but don’t wake anyone
Turn off your TV
don’t start kidding yourself
Turn off your TV
you can’t live in the living room
besides we could save electricity
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Turn Off Your TV by Jerkatorium

You’ve had the TV on since I got home last night.
You’re watchin’ anything that’s playin’
Not listenin’ to what I’m sayin’
You’re givin’ me the silent treatment and that ain’t right.
Watchin’ TV and making no sound.
Using tactics from a gradeschool playground
You’re using that television to avoid me.
And now that’s really starting to annoy me.


[Chorus]
Turn off your TV,
Just turn and look at me,
Turn off that TV right now and come
Talk to me, talk to me.
Turn off your TV,
Just turn and look at me,
Turn off that TV right now baby
Talk to me, talk to me,
Talk to me, talk to me,
Turn off that TV right now baby please.


Are you tryin’ to drive me crazy, cuz you just might.
This rerun I have seen before,
Don’t think that I can take it anymore.
I’m really tryin’ to avoid getting in a fight.
But you know how to push my buttons,
And now you’re acting like a total shut-in.
You’re using that boob tube to tune me out,
When you know it just makes me wanna scream and shout … at you.

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
You’re on the couch, and you’re just sitting there,
With an empty can of beer, and a comatose stare,
Just smirking.
Just grinning.
You’ll keep it up, yeah you think you’re so clever,
Thinkin’ I’ll say I’m sorry and I’ll totally surrender,
It’s working.
You’re winning.

[Chorus]
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Turn Off Your TV by Pepper Jane

Do you ever drive down a road and feel like the grass grows
And the flowers burst forth just for you
Do you ever gasp with delight to realise
The sun would still rise if there were only you

I feel so blessed, about what comes next
And it's a surprise to me mostly
And I feel so held: strong and delicately
And yeah I feel like the roadside is just for me

Do you ever feel like the stars in the sky sparkle
And the moon dances just for your eyes
Do you ever feel like, when the rain falls on your face
You could be the only one in space

And Ifeel so connected though I fought to keep neglecting
Her love, depth and pristine
And now I'm outside in the world
And I'm excited like a little girl
And I'm so glad I turned off my TV

Turn off your TV (x7) ... and come with me

Oh I'd ask you, I'd ask you every day
But it won't change your answer 'cause you always say
You're so jealous of me, but you too can be free
Turn off your TV
Everything is about perspective. :shock:
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TURN OFF YOUR TV
By truth

I think it's a baser instinct. We are always willing to sit and watch the shadow play just wind its way before us, happy to ignore us, we a grecian chorus yelling at the screen, failing to find its meaning.
And it fits just like a glove. These absurdities you love, spat from satellites above,
But if you turn off your TV and talk to me, I'm sure to hear you,
And if you drop your gadgetry and come to me, I'm sure to feel you.

Other than four lads on the bandstand (I don't mean to grandstand), when did it ever lift the culture, shifting sideways? Laying brand-new highways? Wrong in all the right ways? Better yet to start the healing, gaze at the ceiling.
And it fits just like a glove. These absurdities you love, spat from satellites above,
But if you turn off your TV and talk to me, I'm sure to hear you,
And if you drop your gadgetry and come to me, I'm sure to feel you.
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