Amused To Death Lyrics

Amused To Death lyrics

Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me

   This supermarket life is getting long

   What is the heart life of a colour TV

   What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

   Ooh western woman

   Ooh western girl

   News hound sniffs the air

   When Jessica Hahn goes down

   He latches on to that symbol

   Of detachment

   Attracted by the peeling away of feeling

   The celebrity of the abused shell the belle

   Ooh western woman

   Ooh western girl

   And the children of Melrose

   Strut their stuff

   Is absolute zero cold enough

   And out in the valley warm and clean

   The little ones sit by their TV screens

   No thoughts to think

   No tears to cry

   All sucked dry

   Down to the very last breath

   Bartender what is wrong with me

   Why am I so out of breath

   The captain said excuse me ma'am

   This species has amused itself to death

   Amused itself to death

   Amused itself to death

   We watched the tragedy unfold

   We did as we were told

   We bought and sold

   It was the greatest show on earth

   But then it was over

   We ohhed and aahed

   We drove our racing cars

   We ate our last few jars of caviar

   And somewhere out there in the stars

   A keen-eyed look-out

   Spied a flickering light

   Our last hurrah

   And when they found our shadows

   Grouped around the TV sets

   They ran down every lead

   They repeated every test

   They checked out all the data on their lists

   And then the alien anthropologists

   Admitted they were still perplexed

   But on eliminating every other reason

   For our sad demise

   They logged the explanation left

   This species has amused itself to death

   No tears to cry no feelings left

   This species has amused itself to death