[00:00.00]Telly - Tim Minchin
[00:00.41]Somewhere on a show I heard
[00:05.45]That a picture tells a thousand words
[00:10.39]So telly if you bothered to take a look
[00:14.84]Is the equivalent of like lots of books
[00:18.80]All I know I learned from telly
[00:21.02]This big beautiful box of facts
[00:23.27]If you know a thing already
[00:25.51]Baby you can switch the channel over just like that
[00:27.70]Endless joy and endless laughter
[00:29.98]Folks living happily ever after
[00:32.22]All you need to make you wise
[00:34.49]Is 23 minutes plus advertisements
[00:36.66]Why would we waste our energy
[00:38.88]Turning the pages 1 2 3
[00:41.02]When we can sit comfortably
[00:42.43]On our lovely bumferlies
[00:43.36]Watching people singing and talking and doing stuff
[00:45.80]All I know I learned from telly
[00:47.88]The bigger the telly the smarter the man
[00:50.07]You can tell from my big telly
[00:52.40]Just what a clever fella I am
[00:55.04]Take it away son
[01:01.75]You can't learn that from a stupid book
[01:03.49]All I know I learned from telly
[01:05.76]What to think and what to buy
[01:07.89]I was pretty smart already
[01:10.20]But now I'm really really smart-very very smart
[01:12.38]Endless content endless channels
[01:14.63]Endless chat on endless panels
[01:17.00]All you need to fill your muffin
[01:19.17]Without having to really fink or nothing
[01:21.44]Why would we waste our energy
[01:23.46]Trying to work out Ulysses
[01:25.70]When we can sit happily
[01:27.12]On our lovely bapperlies
[01:28.08]Watching slightly famous people
[01:29.32]Talking to really famous people
[01:30.46]All I know I learned from telly
[01:32.48]The bigger the telly the smarter the man
[01:34.84]You can tell from my big telly
[01:37.20]Just what a clever fella I am
[01:40.62]Who the dickens is Charles Dickens
[01:42.79]Mary Shelley Cor she sounds smelly
[01:45.13]Harry Potter what a rotter
[01:47.33]Jane Austen in the compostin'
[01:49.69]James Joyce doesn't sound noice
[01:51.83]Ian McEwan Ugh I feel like spewin'
[01:54.08]William Shakespeare Schwilliam Schmakespeare
[01:56.55]Moby Dick easy grandma
[01:58.90]All together now
[02:01.43]All I know I learned from telly
[02:06.30]The bigger the telly the smarter the man
[02:11.77]You can tell from my big telly
[02:16.75]What very a clever fella I am
[02:33.17]Thank you very much