Smoke the Telly

Everybody wants a piece of the cake And let them eat it, eat it, eat it Smoke it, smoke it! Everybody wants a piece of the cake And let them eat it, eat it, eat it For all the love you're gonna get in this world You might as well just smoke the telly For all the joy you're gonna get in this world You might as well just smoke your telly Smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke your telly Reading the papers, their photographs and headlines Same news as yesterday and the day before that The barons of the public conscience dictate their opinions Sanitized phrases for their beastly, beastly acts Journalistic jargon substitutes for real pain Summing-up a situation with a generalized slur Confident and loud and stupid, bigoted and smug The editor has to fill his rag to keep his punters happy Do what? Grind it up now For all the love you're gonna get in this world You might as well just smoke the telly For all the joy you're gonna get in this world You might as well just smoke your telly Smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke your telly Switch on the television - gentle light of violence Same tosh as yesterday and the day before that Keeping up the standards of consumerist idiocy Of course they've got to buy a scoop an exclusive must be found Calling scandal-mongers, some celebrities to hound Learn how to join the in-crowd What's fashionable this year? Selling modern fairy tales, the people lap it up And of course, the shareholders expect to make an honest buck Do what? Grind it up now Everybody wants a piece of the cake And let them eat it, eat it, eat it Smoke it, smoke it! Turn off the radio - tune in to the airwaves Same music as yesterday and the days before that The plastic politicians secrete their slippery, slippery speeches Their self-righteous attitude it plays the honest thief A hopeless Royal Family of antiquated ways Can't even keep the pretence of the nuclear-family way Careerist Tory ministers caught with their trousers down So Discreet Hypocrisy, an example for you and me Do what? Grind it up now Everybody wants a piece of the cake And let them eat it, eat it, eat it