Talking Reality Television Blues Tom Jones

[00:50.35] Well, come gather around, and I'll sing you a song [00:54.88] About a crazy old world that's coming along [00:59.82] 'Til one day some fool made the decision [01:03.02] To turn on the television [01:09.73] Of course, radio reported we'd all ignore it [01:13.18] Paper said we'd have no time for it [01:16.73] But before you knew it, you knew Milton Berle [01:21.00] And we all had a new escape from the world [01:27.62] All tuned in, before too soon [01:30.33] We were watching a man walk on the moon [01:34.28] He made it look as easy as driving a car [01:38.87] Video killed the radio star [01:42.25] I got the talking blues [01:43.71] [02:03.39] Talking blues is easy to do [02:05.53] All you gotta do is rhyme a line or two [02:08.57] Rhyme a line or two and then [02:10.77] You don't even have to rhyme again [02:15.35] See? I can say anything I want to now [02:19.93] Well, you know, within reason [02:22.79] [02:41.25] Say sitcom, catchphrase, game show nation [02:45.94] Television soon defied explanation [02:51.00] As the situation took to such a degree [02:54.36] That eventually we all heard about cable TV [02:57.87] Of course, free TV news swore we'd ignore it [03:01.51] But the average family could never afford it [03:04.88] But again they were wrong, eventually [03:08.45] Everybody wanted their MTV [03:13.41] We were all tuned in, but now the shock [03:15.73] Watching a kid do a thing called the "moonwalk" [03:20.81] Sliding backwards really was eventually too far [03:27.67] Reality killed that video star [03:30.99] I got the talking blues [03:32.55] [03:56.60] So simple at first, it was hard to foresee [04:00.29] The impending collision with reality [04:03.72] But it soon seemed TV turned on itself [04:06.83] When "The real world" came on like it was somethin' else [04:13.58] Of course, actors all acted like they weren't floored [04:17.15] Hoping eventually that we'd all get bored [04:20.84] But one after the another we pretended not to act [04:24.70] As we hurdled ever forward towards alternative facts [04:33.69] Then a show called "The apprentice" came on and pretty soon [04:38.02] An old man with a comb-over had sold us the moon [04:45.68] We stayed tuned in, now here we are [04:50.85] Reality killed by a reality star [04:54.12] I got the talking blues [05:02.71] Hills, that is [05:04.03]