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作词 : Todd Daniel Snider

作曲 : Todd Daniel Snider

Well, come gather around and I'll sing you a song

About a crazy old world that's coming along

'Til one day some fool made the decision

To turn on the television

Of course radio reported we'd all ignore it

Paper said we'd have no time for it

But before you knew it, you knew Milton Berle

And we all had a new escape from the world

All tuned in, before too soon

We were watching a man walk on the moon

He made it look as easy as driving a car

Video killed the radio star

I got the talking blues

Talking blues is easy to do

All you gotta do is rhyme a line or two

Rhyme a line or two and then

You don't even have to rhyme again

See? I can say anything I want to now

Well, you know, within reason

Say sitcom, catchphrase, game show nation

Television soon defied explanation

As the situation took to such a degree

That eventually we all heard about cable TV

Of course, free TV news swore we'd ignore it

But the average family could never afford it

But again they were wrong, eventually

Everybody wanted their MTV

We were all tuned in, but now the shock

Watching a kid do a thing called the "moonwalk"

Sliding backwards really was eventually too far

Reality killed that video star

I got the talking blues

So simple at first, it was hard to foresee

The impending collision with reality

But it soon seemed TV turned on itself

When "The Real World" came on like it was somethin' else

Of course actors all acted like they weren't floored

Hoping eventually that we'd all get bored

But one after the another we pretended not to act

As we hurdled ever forward towards alternative facts

Then a show called "The Apprentice" came on and pretty soon

An old man with a comb-over had sold us the moon

We stayed tuned in, now here we are

Reality killed by a reality star

I got the talking blues

Hills, that is