Story Behind The Song

Tired of listening to all the beeping and swearing and stupidity being broadcast on TV.

Song Description

A very unhappy cowbody expresses his disgust with how much his wife loves reality TV by finally blowing the TV apart with a shotgun.

Lyrics

AMERICAN TV
©2015 Music and Lyrics by Oliver W. Tuthill Jr.

Verse
Well, I woke up this morning in a terrible bind, Profanity and screaming hitting in my mind. The wife so dearly loves her TV, watching all the people doing put down scenes.

Making fun of children and the elderly, what kind of country have we come to be? Lord have mercy on the TV suits, to me there nothing but a bunch of jerks.

Chorus
There's the beep! Beep! Look! Someone's puking. American TV. Radio! There's the beep! Beep! Look! Someone's puking. American TV. Radio!

Verse
The screen shines bright and the wife walks in, while man stabs a woman with a wooden shiv. Blood and screaming are everywhere, my wife starts laughing and drinks a beer.

Eighteen beeps in 30 seconds flat, very loud yelling as he's tazed in the back. A new smiling face on the TV screen, saying there's a pill that will let me pee.

Chorus
There's the beep! Beep! Look! Someone's puking. American TV. There's the beep! Beep! Look! Someone's puking. American TV. Radio!

Bridge
Don't you know it hurts the children. Don't you know it hurts our country. Take some pride in your future. Try to build some self-respect.

Verse
I listen to the radio and it's all the same, cursing and swearing, such a patriotic shame. Beeping so loud it really hurts my head, and some guy talking about a werewolf den.
Television programmers they yank your chain, content providers think you're to blame. FCC says you cannot swear, so here's a big effing beep to put on the air.

Chorus
There's the beep! Beep! Look! Someone's puking. American TV. There's the beep! Beep! Look! Someone's puking. American TV. Radio!