Anderson Ian Black And White Television Lyrics

Black And White Television Lyrics

I looked in the mirror then
saw my face in a dream.
With eyes sharp as
diamonds
Blessed with clear vision
Things were not as they
seemed
Black and White Television
stared back from the wall.
Is that
my life?
Am I here at all?
Down in the High Road, see
motor cavalcades
glide
past shopwindow dressers
desperately covering
all the parts they
can hide.
Black and White Television
stares at me again.
Is that their
lives?
Even dummies pretend.
The truth is so hard to deny.
The answer
is here
The screen never lies.
Black and White Television.
It's the
right television.
Show me it's all a dream tonight.
The boys on the
corner sulk
in their Suzuki haze.
In primary colours
(each year more
startling)
but they still fade to grey
on Black and White
Television.
It's sweeping the land.
Is that your life?
Do you
understand?
Black and White Television
Back the right television
Black
and White Television
Hard to fight television
Show me it's all a
dream
tonight.