Standard (EADGBE)

Hello, my name is your TV

We've been together so long, so many memories

We've solved so many problems, situated comedies

I fed you ads and movie stars

And you always fell asleep in my color bars

But there's this world outside where the writing's off

Scenes last too long and you lose the plot

All the girls they lie and they break your heart

And nothing's done when the street goes dark

Here see California, where pretty people dream

And the good guy gets the girl by the sunny sea

And when they'd yell upstairs you'd cry

Little boy inside their lies, in the dark I'd watch your eyes

And I know the way they laugh, the jackals feast behind your back

Here you hide, but still they stab

In the dark I feel you die

In that world outside where the writing's off

Scenes last too long and you lose the plot

All the girls they lie and they break your heart

And nothing's done when the street goes dark

Here see California, where pretty people dream

Now see that icy vacant lot where they made your nose bleed

The flannel spread, the heater on, the world is dead

The sun is gone, you take my hand, I'll take you home

You'll never have to be alone

The pictures warping slowly, the scrolling seems unending

The snowy edges blurring, the bars between us bending

Feel you start to breathe, you are alive inside of me

Forever tan and strong and loved, you'll never bleed again

In dreamy California scenes where bad guys meet their destiny

And the good guy gets the girl by the sunny sea