Television Is Not Your Friend

by R.K. Cowles

Television is hypnotic & addictive
You become mesmerized& hypnotized
Your TV manufactured from pixels of red, green & blue
It flickers high rates of speed
You're bombarded with fast movin' electrons
It seizes your brain away from you

These subliminal waves seal your eyes
Transmitting cerebellum broadcasts that deceive
You get an epileptic-type reaction
This high rate of TV flashes effects the mind
You become reposed and there's less brain activity
You're not wrecked by visible rays but invisible radiation

It's the best control mechanism you can think of
Quoted of why television is furnished in a prison
Your intellect responds to what the screen displays
You're not alive, you are dead
You fail to keep touch with the body
Your intellect eventually will pay

It's never perceived at an ordinary plane awareness
It's the weapon of the corporate media
With a technique to convey information
By transmitting corrupted communication
Into the entrance of the healthy awareness
Therefore, the viewer assume truth is in television

It's initiated in your childhood
Parents seats the child in front of this evilness
Exploiting' their minds in their early existence
Tuned into the cartoons
Cartoons becomes their reality
Some of these cartoons bring forth violence

Characters receiving wallops upon their flesh
A brief time following they seem to be intact
Soon after on the playground it's acted out
Parents ponder where it's attained from
Kids confused why it won't function on themselves
These kids seated staring' entranced upon the couch

Violence, sex, hatred, fear & cliches
It's what they aspire me to speculate about
With my feeble-mind, viewing' excessively upon the tube
Cemented upon this TV continuously wastin' my life
This is what they desire to regulate me
Once caught, all things that isn't I conceive as true

Poison disperse from this TV set
Emits into my veins
This slime taints upon ideas of mine
Effecting' what I consume
So I'd buy, buy, buy, buy, buy
I remain in line, not recognizing' their crime

Now multitude of channels
Surfin' through 'til somethin' appeals to me
Spendin' useless hours to stumble upon what I like
Once drawn in, I'm soaked in these transmitted rays
I'm too week to depart, I'm asleep
The media dangles the bait, I bite

They reel me into their master plan
Television is their poisonous weapon
I'm entranced by this electronic device
It makes me hate, obsessed with the love of it
It produces greed, obsessed with thirst
Perverts me to a sexual drive, this box entices

Merely observe what they desire me to
They never introduce me to the truth
So I accept their infectious lies
Camouflaging the realism, I'm not suppose to know
I only view their fairy tales
What actually occurred is skillfully disguised

Extremely wrapped-up in their deceitful cleverness
These images dictates my point of view
Programmed, a slave to this TV
They coerce me, to believe they're God
And the president is their messiah
Playin' into their hold, I'm not free

Not awake, asleep I allow myself to be
Asleep in their fancy, for their entertainment
I'm longin' for their inducing treat
Permitting' them to feed me inventive tales
Glued to the television, as if we're as one
Eatin' hungrily these diversions that are sweet

This blindness is buildin' my ignorance
I now know television is not my friend
It's a friend to the corporate media
Whom entices me to view their views
I no longer long to be a permanent zombie
I've require to be released out of this hysteria

Each brain is like no other in the world
With TV, my brain's operatin' system lay dormant
It rely on the senses to install information
Absorbin' information through these senses
Processing this in a way that's unique
I shouldn't be forced to have faith in their creation

I desire my own mind back
That they have stolen on a silver platter
I no longer desire to be a slave
I desire to terminate this addiction
Need not to exist with no reality
This is not what I desire to crave

Need to eradicate this TV set
This drug is sabotaging my consciousness
Desire knowledge of the reality that'll around
Need to expel this poisonous box
Desire to think for myself
Massacre my TV, then my intellect will be found

Television is not your friend
It will offend
Need my mind & soul to mend
my thoughts, I desire to apprehend
Television is not your friend
Into depravity my mentality descends
Need to wake, have my spirit ascend
My mind I must defend

Sleep no more
Need not to own a TV
Open my mind
Awake from this tragedy

(2007)