Just Like Ringing a Bell

They're taking an old religion Fitting it with a different name Now we're cutting our own incisions And inserting their hurting pain There's another innocent victim shivering in the frigid cold They're making a dirty fortune Selling something that's barely working An inferior version of rock and roll Or whatever else ever has touched your soul Call it what you will There's a billion of them they sold They're taking credit that they're not earning Any good thing they ever sold they stole Oh yeah They're making a television Different than the old one was A limited deluxe edition It's a superior version of The previous week's installment But ain't it all the same? (pretty much) Yet I comfort myself at night with Transmission by satellite It's like a good enough facsimile of real love I guess I got a habit same as everyone else does We're all banging down doors Trying to grab that stuff But we never should have left it up to the judge That passed the bill that illegalized us They illegalized us Oh yeah The inferior version (ooh ooh) It isn't really rock and roll (ooh yeah) It's but a shallow imitation (ooh ooh) It doesn't really get ya going (ooh yeah) And there ain't no good explanation (ooh ooh) Why it's flying off the shelves (ooh yeah) It's a sorry situation (ooh ooh) The entire world's going to hell (ooh yeah) But I in no way blame myself Though I helped those bastards to sell that inferior version we love so well An inferior version of rock and roll An inferior version of rock and roll They're making a dirty fortune off an inferior version of rock and roll Whoa yeah --- Just Like Ringing a Bell - Titus Andronicus