My TV
© 2004
(From "Homeland")
My TV used to sit in my living room
Where it had sat for over 200 years
Through big family fights
Long, chilly nights
And days full of heartache and tears
My TV was the focal point of my living room
It could inform and entertain and inspire
'Til one fateful day
It was stolen away
By your brother, and your lover, and Reba McEntire
You can steal my TV
You can watch my TV
But it's still my TV
Well, I can see the metaphor is lost on some of you. And I don't wanna come off like some kind of elitist intellectual. So, at the risk of dumbin' it down for you, I'm gonna sign it again. And I'm gonna interpret for you all the deep poetical significance of each and every line.
My TV (the presidency of the United States)
Use to sit (be reposed)
In my living room (in the trust of the American people)
Where it had sat for over 200 years (Makes sense now, don't it?)
Through big family fights (the civil war)
Long, chilly nights (the cold war)
And days full of heartache and tears (my own puberty)
My TV (the presidency)
Was the focal point (focal point)
Of my living room (of the world's attention)
It could inform (Abraham Lincoln)
And entertain (Bill Clinton)
And inspire (Gerald Ford)
'Til one fateful day (December 12, 2000)
It was stolen (arrested from democratic control by means of media manipulation, voter intimidation, judicial activism, collusion, nepotism and outright fraud) away
By your brother (Jeb Bush)
And your lover (Katherine Harris)
And Reba McEntire (Sandra Day O'Connor)
You can steal my TV
You can watch my TV
But it's still my TV
Yeah, you can steal it
You can even watch it
But it's still my (belonging to the American people, many of whom have fought in grisly foreign wars, presumably to preserve the right to vote) TV