flat top intervention bringing home the new invention see it there in pieces on the ground a television war between the cynics and the saints flip the dial and that s whose side you re on a sleeping on the white house lawn ain t never changed a thing just look at all the washed out hippie dreams and it s falling all around us is this some kind of joke they re trying to pull on us fallin all around us i ll turn my head off for a while the tabloid generation s lost choking on its fear used to be that s all we had to fear and conscience keeps us quiet while the crooked love to speak there s knowledge wrapped in blankets on the street a visionary coward says that anger can be power as long as there s a victim on tv and it s falling all around us is this some kind of joke they re trying to pull on us falling all around us i ll turn my head off for a while and my dirty dreams all come alive on my tv screen and assassination plots show me what i haven t got show me what i love and who i m supposed to be show me everything i need show it all to me show it all to me and it s fallin all around us is this some kind of joke they re trying to pull on us fallin all around us i ll turn my head off for a whi i i i ile