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Song Parodies -> "Vast Wasteland IV. Death by Watching"
Original Song Title:
"The Waste Land IV. Death by Water"
Original Performer:
T.S. Eliot
Parody Song Title:
"Vast Wasteland IV. Death by Watching"
Parody Written by:
John A. Barry
The Lyrics
Egregious excrescence day and night; death
Of imagination; lame stories to tell.
It's the profit and loss
That execs of TV
Really care about, not in producing swell
Programming to enlighten benighted youth.
Thought to be a keen tool. . .
To bolster school
It's now a forum for well-heeled windbags,
A chthonic tonic that's thanatotic for the gene pool.
Of imagination; lame stories to tell.
It's the profit and loss
That execs of TV
Really care about, not in producing swell
Programming to enlighten benighted youth.
Thought to be a keen tool. . .
To bolster school
It's now a forum for well-heeled windbags,
A chthonic tonic that's thanatotic for the gene pool.
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whew...last line is a doozy
Ya don't see "thanatotic" on too many other websites... Quixotic episodic on the hypnotic narcotic. 5s, of course.
Thanks for hanging in there, you two.
Short, but meaty...
ps. Not many writers have the Turtle burrowing into a dictionary... I thought "chthonic" was a typo.... soooo cool, have to work that into conversations.....
Well written, 5's
Splendid! What alvin said. 555
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