Colour Television
by Stereolab
From the album: Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Duration: 05:33
Lyrics for Colour Television
Viewed as natural as trees and grass Given way of the middle class A promise to outplay the mass For all the wealth can be amassed It's a single story (story) Violently imposed as the (story) Universal narrative Of progress, and development, and of civilization The same ones lead, other ones lag While majority numbers gag Killing the possibilities Of there being other stories Conceptualizations (other) Of progress and development (stories) Open are the possibilities A deluding promise of a middle class for old times on