Reality TV

Reality TV is an oxymoron
And if you didn't know that shit was scripted, you're a fucking moron
I'm tired of these stupid people with their smart phones
Whose personalities consist of Kardashian mentality and Jersey Shore quotes
Sucked into vacant concepts
Placated by constant nonsense
Fixed into pixelated images
Of glorified ignorance
Your parents were right
Sit too close to the TV and eventually you'll become blind
Unable to see
Reality diluted, saturated, and screened
Commercialized and shrunk down to fit into your screen
We turn a blind eye to homeless living in boxes
Cause we're too busy boxed in our own little boxes
Watching the world through a box that never seem to capture the full picture
This is what you call reality?
Make a show about teen mothers
And not a single one is a woman of color
Just a bunch of white girls from the suburbs
But that's alright.. guess there's enough black girls in that one show about women making fools of themselves and disrespecting each other
Yeah.. they had the nerve to call that one Love and Hip Hop
Almost as ironic as the Real World, where drunk white kids and a token black guy put on a show for the camera
Almost as funny as Survivor where privileged people survive a situation that they could bitch out of at any moment
You want some real world survivors?... New Orleans, Rwanda, Haiti, Japan
Sierra Leone, Chile, Darfur, Pakistan
Child soldiers, rebels, sex slaves, gangs
Genocide, virginity checks, but none of this is part of the scheduled plan
It's not sexy enough
Not quite marketable enough
They're only gonna show you what they want you to see
Force feed us Snooki and The Situation
So we'll forget and stop looking at the situation
In Palestine
The revolution will never be televised
They want to keep you complacent and sell you lies
Raise an army of full stomachs and empty minds
That'll shoot first and ask questions never
That's the American way
He'll be too busy watching the game and she'll be too busy watching The Game
To realize the game that's being played with our lives
The revolutions have never been televised
They've been squashed and swept under the rug
Before anyone can say "enough is enough"
We'll be too occupied to occupy anything
We're not in remote control of anything except maybe the remote control
They don't give a fuck about you
How's that for reality?
Closed eyes, open wallets
Never ending spending
And the bombs will keep dropping
And the shows will keep playing
And no one will even bother to explain why
But look on the bright side at least we'll be entertained right?