It seems to me there's a new curriculum Without a balanced equilibrium What ever happened to the way things were Its all a blur, no medium Idiocy is the prerequisite When MTV has got their hands in it Abomination, a god awful shame But who's to blame Mass media Is that how it's gonna be All I see is mental truancy They're not as clever as they seem It's all the same to me No new philosophy is seen You never question what they feed to you Like asking blind people to see for you You wear a bar code, but you wear it well They lies they sell, you're buying them The operations got it all worked out Keep your sedated, keep you nailed down Subsistance cannot defeat the dollar bill A platform built on a tedium Is that how it's gonna be All I see is mental truancy They're not as clever as they seem It's all the same to me No new philosophy is seen Salt on an open sore Its hard to feel much more What's easy Standards receding With sights set on the green Can't call the music clean Its sleazy Heartless and greedy You built it up to tear it down (x3)