Telly Songtext
von Gabriel Ebert, Taylor Trensch

Somewhere on a show I heard
That a picture tells a thousand words
So telly, if you bothered to take a look
Is the equivalent of like lots of books

All I know I learnt from telly
This big beautiful box of facts
If you know a thing already
Baby, you can switch the channel over just like that
Endless joy and endless laughter
Folks living happily ever after
All you need to make you wise
Is 23 minutes plus advertisements

Why would we waste our energy
Turning the pages one, two, three
When we can sit comfortably on our lovely buffalees
Watching people singing and talking and doing stuff


All I know I learnt from telly
The bigger the telly, the smarter the man
You can tell from my big telly
Just how clever of a fella I am
Take it away, son

You can′t learn that from a stupid book
All I know I learnt from telly
What to think and what to buy
Now I was pretty smart already
But now I'm really really smart, very very smart
Endless content, endless channels
Endless chat on endless panels
All you need to fill your muffin
Without having to really think or nothing

Why would we waste our energy
Trying to work out Ulysses
When we can sit happily on our lovely buffalees
Watching slightly famous people talking to really famous people

All I know I learnt from telly
The bigger the telly, the smarter the man
You can tell from my big telly
Just how clever of a fella I am


Who the dickens is Charles Dickens?
Mary Shelley or she sounds smelly
Charlotte Brontë, do not want-e
Jane Austen in compost in
James Joyce, oh he doesn′t sound nice
Ian McEwan, I feel like spewing
William Shakespeare, schmilliam schakespeare
Moby Dick, hey easy grandma

All I know I learnt from telly
The bigger the telly, the smarter the man
You can tell from my big telly
What a very clever fella I am
Alright

Is it just me or am I amazing?