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gNASHVILLE!

1. I Want to be a Christian -- Intro
2. Read it in a Letter
3. Barbie Dolls
4. Wake
5. Closer to You
6. Arise, My Soul
7. Gnashville
8. Radiation
9. Johnny's Dead
10. Perish Hilton
11. Thelma and Louise were a Couple of Dishes
12. Loser's Lament
13. Leper's Logic
14. My Hope is Built
15. Zaccheus
16. Television Anesthesia
17. Hypocrisy
18. I Want to be a Christian
19. Joy
20. Rejoice
21. How Firm a Foundation

Track 16: Television Anesthesia

Verse 1: Lonely dog in the pound
             In its last days as a hound
             Quietly succumbs to its own fate.
             Munching its last Alpo meal
             To the eye and tongue appeal
             It didn't see the poison on its plate.

Chorus: Television anesthesia knock you out before you die. (2x)

Verse 2: Convicted man on death row
             With just one last stop to go
             Passes time by staring at the screen.
            The cable brings his mental snack
             His spark of life fades out to black
             Sedated by the poison intravene.

Chorus

Verse 3: Modern man, you're sofa-bound
             How do you differ from that hound?
             Your hourglass is nearly out of sand.
             What have you done with all your years?
             Laughed fake laughs and cried vain tears
             Your tombstone won't have bunny ears
             Buried with a remote in your hand.

Chorus

Written by: Bob Brown
Date of Writing: February, December 2005; March, June 2006; May 2007

Notes
The Moron Tabernacle Choir (Anna Dove, Andrew Dove, Megan Rossi, and Katherine Rossi) sang back up on this song.

Verse 1: I don't know how a dog in the pound is euthanized, but I imagine for the purposes of this song that it would be by a poisonous compound added to its food. (It's probably by a tranquilizer shot, really.) The dog is obviously unaware of the poison; most habitual TV viewers are probably equally unaware that they are being sedated to real life and eternity.

Verse 2: First three lines--Imagine a convict on death row hours before his execution, watching TV. "The cable" means Cable TV and it also signifies the tubes that deliver the poisonous compounds that kill him during the lethal injection.

Verse 3: "Laughed fake laughs and cried vain tears"--This refers to phony laugh tracks built in to many sitcom productions. It also points out that habitual TV watchers spend their emotions on things that are not real. How about crying for the aborted children for a change, and not for some fictitious character on ER who had to break up with the sleazy doctor she'd been sleeping with? Boo hoo her.