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TV Dinner

from Music To $hop To by NVS

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lyrics

Overworked
Underpaid
Locked up in this godforsaken iron cage

Full reserve
IRA
Can’t afford to let up or I’ll be replaced

Clocking out
What a day
Can’t wait to unwind in front of my display

Automate
Disengage
TV dinner welcomes with a glowing face

Remote control
Mutes the pain
Loving arms of loneliness take hold again

Turn the dial
Touch the screen
More alive than any sense of “species-being”

Filtering
What is real
Precondition everything I need to feel

Tube IV
So aesthetic
My swollen eyes are anesthetics

CHORUS:
A one-dimensional decline
The infrastructure is internalized
The individual resigns
Experiences are commodified

Second course
Substance lost
Boredom an alternative to conscious thought

Stimulate
Tantalize
Another form of anomic suicide

Falsify
Fabricate
My utensils scrape the bottom of my plate

No dessert
Full and void
I’m content to fall asleep to white noise

CHORUS:
A quantitative frame of mind
Pain and pleasure assimilate
The economy tanks but I’m feeling fine
Just as long as my paycheck provides me an escape
An escape
Any escape

Try not to think about it
Try not to think at all
Try not to sabotage the little hope I have at all

Try not to think about it
Try not to think at all
Try not to care which one of us is holding the remote control
I will consume
I will consume
Consume

© 2006 Walter Campbell/NVS Music, all rights reserved.

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from Music To $hop To, released August 28, 2010

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NVS San Jose, California

Started in 1999, NVS is a high-energy band from San Jose, CA blending various influences to create music and lyrics encouraging thought and feeling while embodying the best aspects of late '80s/early '90s alternative rock.

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