Color TV Blues - Don McLean

I got a color TV for a limited time

And you can have it by tonight, it’ll bend your mind

I wouldn’t just sell it to an ordinary fool

Y' have to be sure that the fool has cool

Since you look like a man with heart and soul

If you buy it from me now, you get a free mixing bowl

I’ll even let you have a little button I' got

That says have a nice day, you’re gonna like it a lot

Popular music is the national craze

Rock and Roll stars have the kids in a daze

But twist the knob around for a different point of view

And you’ll twist that knob till it comes unscrewed

There’s only one song that the TV sings and that’s

Pennies From Heaven, while the register rings

So it’s easy to see, right from the start

That what makes good money, makes good art

Now did you read the encyclical that’s written by the Pope

Sayin' folks with private property just got no hope

The rich ain’t welcome in the heavenly Palladium

But the Knights of Columbus own Yankee Stadium

Now I ain’t sayin' that the Pope was wrong

But he can easily afford to sing that song

If you’d like to call him up when you need some dough

His number’s Et Cum Spiri 2 2 0

The kids that fought the war are livin' outa state

And the CIA is runnin' things of late

When we elect a man, we put him on the spot

'cause if he don’t play ball, he might get shot

The national security keeps it from the voters

'cause what’s good for America isn’t good for General Motors

We went and found ourselves some mighty strange lovers

The kind that like to blow from underneath the covers

Well millions can avoid with Dr Sigmund Freud

Those realities of life that tend to make me paranoid

Lookin' for the answer just gives me indigestion

I spent so much time, just dealin' with the question

We’d rather talk of dollars and forget about events

When what we have to decide is;

Does it all make sense?

Well everybody’s happy, I saw it on the news

But me, I' got a case of color TV blues

You know, just 'cause you’re paranoid

Doesn’t mean they’re not trying t' get ya'