You have been compelled to stay home
You have been inclined to boot up, log in, and dumb down
Stay constantly glued to the stream or the DVR
Because our evolution has been televised

Our evolution has been televised
Our evolution has been brought to us by Time Warner
In proliferating markets with constant pacification

Our evolution has shown us Reagan
making mythological tax policies and heading an onslaught by George
Bush, Dick Cheney, and Barack Obama to live
futures bailed out by the American people
Our evolution has been televised

Over evolution has been brought to us by the
Super Bowl and has starred Johnny
Depp and Robert Downey Jr. and Peter and Seth
Our evolution has given your body sex repeal
Our evolution has gotten rid of unsightly hair
Our evolution has made you want to be forty pounds
thinner, because our evolution has been televised

There are plenty of pictures of you and the president,
appearing to fight the establishment during a campaign run
and trying to hide your investment in a broken system
Fox News has been able to bring us Glenn Beck
and the pimp cut down the mighty oak tree
Our evolution has been televised

There have been pictures of soldiers desecrating
prisoners on the numbing display
There have been pictures of Netanyahu wearing
halos on the numbing display, but none of his nuclear weapons
There have been pictures of Joe Solmonese posing
with Hilary Clinton while he perpetuates assimilation
There have been televised concerts of Bono
performing both music and an ideology targeting
A homogenized conception of Africa through the same means that have
created the conditions he wants to combat in the first place

American Idol, Survivor, and the Fake
World have become ultimately relevant, and
women care if Meredith finally ends up with
Derrick on Grey’s Anatomy because all of us
are in the living room trying to forget how awful our lives are
Our evolution has been televised

The eleven o’clock news makes us afraid to lock our doors
and we all care about Michelle Robinson’s dresses
The theme songs are written by Timbaland,
U2, and sung by Lady Gaga, Justin
Timberlake, Toby Keith, Nickleback and Eminem
Our evolution has been televised

Our evolution continues after a quick message
about Capitol One, Capitol P, and capitalism
We are all familiar with the anthropomorphic dough in the
oven, the king in the restaurant, and the bunny with the drum
Our evolution is accelerated within 5 Hours.
Our evolution does not fight the germs that ‘cause intellectual death
Our evolution has put greed in the driver’s seat

Our evolution has been televised, has been televised
has been televised
Our evolution is our consumption
Our evolution is a lie

Farewell Gil Scott-Heron
Your truth is relevant
Your influence is infinite
And your inspiration ultimate