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Electric Kool​-​Aid Acid Test

from As Seen on TV (social commentary) by Jef Knight

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Everything in the media is designed to sell you stuff. But it's not more stuff that you really want, is it...
Recited over a cool jazzy piano/bass/drums groove.

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Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
© 2017 Jef Knight

I'm not here to educate you Mock, diminish or berate you
but in your life there is mileu
From which you build your worldview
Ignorance, sewn-together with a thousand errant views,
Are yours to to act as glue In your intelectual stew
A tasteless broth of TV news Seasoned with some googled clues
Cobled together like clown shoes from the stories you've consumed

the tv-an,-the-internet do their best
to-sell-us-an electic koolaid acid test of will
it's us V them
in the market-place of consumer mayhem

but the tv will not save you
and the internet enslaves you
to the clickbait that enrages
for the mouse clicks it engages

so here's a word to just remind you
that the map that they have sold you
is not the world outside your window
just a map how you're lied to
by the one's who seek to own you
and will silently control you
as you beg to lock the shackles of your fate
on your own wrist...but wait, here comes the twist...

You can save yourself the trouble
just by exiting the bubble
of the battle for your mind
if you can just see through the lies...

I'm not here to educate you
or dispassionately berate you
just a gentle shake to wake you

you are not your the things you own
you are not the things displayed and shown
you are not the pictures of your food
or the vintage wine that you consume

as you bask in tv's glow
you're not the hero of your favorite show
you are not your watch, your boat, your car,
you are not the trips you take affar

for all the shopping trips you've made
and all the precious things displayed
will end up all as worthless junk
delivered to the local dump

so I shed a tear, each time I pray
that you have the strength to just resist
the pull of life's perverse buffet
of goods and things and shows you've missed

that make you wonder if your life's your own
or someone else's shot to call

but the answer's waiting there inside you
all you wanted through it all
is love

all you really want is love
only love

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from As Seen on TV (social commentary), released June 9, 2020
Written, Performed & Produced
by Jef Knight

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