Comfortable, Numb and Naive

Comfortably Numb

Get in touch with god
Turn the radio on

Get a house full of lies
Power the TV on

Read the bed time stories in the newspaper
Lull yourself into a hypnotic stupor

Switch to the music channels

Turn on your body, blindfold your soul

Tune into nine thousand outlets on cable

Get your head programmed

Watch the celebrities and wana-be's with envy
Hear the news anchors spinning and miseducating

Talk show pundits instigating and hating

Putting spells on us til we're oblivious

Drinking and roaring for sports

Is this like bread and circus for the Romans?

The last thing the fish notices

Is the water it's immersed in

(by Fazeel Azeez Chauhan, 1-29-97)