Lyrics - Black & White Television by Anderson Ian

I looked in the mirror thensaw my face in a dream.
With eyes sharp as diamonds
Blessed with clear vision
Things were not as they seemed
Black and
White
Televisionstared back from the wall.
Is that my life?
Am
I here at all?
Down in the
High
Road, seemotor cavalcades glidepast shopwindow dressersdesperately coveringall the parts they can hide.
Black and
White
Televisionstares 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 sulkin their
Suzuki haze.
In primary colours(each year more startling)but they still fade to greyon
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 dreamtonight.

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