Telly

Telly - Tim Minchin

Somewhere on a show I heard

That a picture tells a thousand words

So telly if you bothered to take a look

Is the equivalent of like lots of books

All I know I learned from telly

This big beautiful box of facts

If you know a thing already

Baby you can switch the channel over just like that

Endless joy and endless laughter

Folks living happily ever after

All you need to make you wise

Is 23 minutes plus advertisements

Why would we waste our energy

Turning the pages 1 2 3

When we can sit comfortably

On our lovely bumferlies

Watching people singing and talking and doing stuff

All I know I learned from telly

The bigger the telly the smarter the man

You can tell from my big telly

Just what a clever fella I am

Take it away son

You can't learn that from a stupid book

All I know I learned from telly

What to think and what to buy

I was pretty smart already

But now I'm really really smart-very very smart

Endless content endless channels

Endless chat on endless panels

All you need to fill your muffin

Without having to really fink or nothing

Why would we waste our energy

Trying to work out Ulysses

When we can sit happily

On our lovely bapperlies

Watching slightly famous people

Talking to really famous people

All I know I learned from telly

The bigger the telly the smarter the man

You can tell from my big telly

Just what a clever fella I am

Who the dickens is Charles Dickens

Mary Shelley Cor she sounds smelly

Harry Potter what a rotter

Jane Austen in the compostin'

James Joyce doesn't sound noice

Ian McEwan Ugh I feel like spewin'

William Shakespeare Schwilliam Schmakespeare

Moby Dick easy grandma

All together now

All I know I learned from telly

The bigger the telly the smarter the man

You can tell from my big telly

What very a clever fella I am

Thank you very much