Lyrics
Princess dying in a fast car,
O.J. sleeping through a side-bar,
Young girls are making our shoes.
Snack-pack, sandwich, and a hand gun,
Joyride killing for the pure fun,
Flesh-eating virus and flus.
Housewife talking on a cell phone,
Hairspray obliterates the ozone.
We learn to accept the abuse.
Pain pills, trying but you can't stop.
Sex fiend, anything to get off.
Bad habits dropping by twos.
Forget reality, forgive humanity,
That's just who we are.
We crave the agony, lust for the tragedy.
That's just who we are.
Magazines, cigarettes, and billboards.
Kids lie, they don't want to do more.
They crave an easier way.
No job, living in your mom's house.
No bed, sleeping on an old couch.
But still you have the whole day.
Forget reality, forgive humanity,
That's just who we are.
True infidelity, selective memory.
That's just who we are.
Kathy Lee Gifford, Ricki Lake, Callista Flockhart.
See them all on Hollywood Squares.
MTV, VH1, BET is coming on.
The television addict,
Veins full of static.
Health care, medicine you can't get.
Detox, haven't found a bed yet.
You'll have to wait by the phone.
Actress waiting on a plush couch.
Intern decorates the White House.
The ugly man is alone.
Poor child dying on a back street.
Rich child working on his backbeat.
Pure luck, it works in reverse.
Cocaine, crystal meth, and speedballs.
Weight loss, thought it was a cure-all.
Be sure you left enough rope.
Forget reality, forgive humanity,
That's just who we are.
Neck deep in vanity, should be in therapy.
That's just who we are.
Brad Pitt, Emeril Lagasse.
Palm Beach, Cunanan shot Versace.
John Tesh is singing the blues.
Ken Starr, Monica Lewinsky.
Cher cries, Sonny Bono can't ski.
McDonald's owns the McWorld.
NesTea, keep it real in L.B.
L.A., Hanson won a Grammy,
The tabloids side-step the truth.
Apartheid, Bosnia, Auschwitz.
Ethnic cleansing but you can't quit.
Catholic, Christian, Muslim, or Jew.
Anthrax, scared is where you find me.
Head down, somewhere in the 90's.
The done is coming undone.
Forget reality, forgive humanity,
That's just who we are.
We crave the agony, lust for the tragedy.
That's just who we are.
Words and music by Bill Reveles
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