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