C Is For Lettuce

I've listened to you bitch, I've listened to you whine
 But you couscous-eating yuppie jerks have gone too far this time!
 Your kids are getting fatter and the outlook's rather bleak
 Despite you putting them on three fad diets every week
 So do you take the blame, and make a change at home?
 No dammit, you're American! You're born to bitch and moan!
 And just like every problem, your solution is the same:
 Your v-chipped cable-ready babysitter is to blame!
 Cuz every single character in every single show
 Must be shaped and molded perfectly to help your children grow
 Cuz if they're not ideal role models and beacons for good health
 You might just have to be one -- yourself!
 And who has time for that?
 So with your pen of judgment, you turn on your TV
 Prepared to write down ev-e-ry indecency you see
 There's a googly-eyed Muppet with a coat of navy blue
 He grabs a plate of something -- hey, that don't look like tofu!
 And with a ghastly "Om nom nom" the cookies disappear
 And suddenly the reason for your offspring's size is clear
 This gluttonous monster's brainwashed them and driven them to gorge!
 Someone must stop this Toll-House-fueled, sloth-inducing scourge!
 Because you're far too busy, you can't teach your kids to see
 That reality is different from what's broadcast on TV
 So you know that they'll just emulate the things the puppets do
 And that might reflect badly on you!
 Now you're
 Screaming for the blood of the Cookie Monster
 Evil puppet demon of o-be-si-ty
 Time to change the tune of his fearful ballad --
 C is For Lettuce, That's Good Enough For Me!
 So now you start to think, your kid may be depressed
 Even though each day he sees a different therapist
 So you go to his classroom, which is looking rather stark
 Cuz their funds were voted down last year to build a baseball park
 The teacher says he's failing English, history and math
 And suddenly it's clear what's led him down this darkening path
 You can't call it, "Failing!" That's such a scathing word!
 We'll just call it, "Success that's temporarily deferred!"
 Cuz language can be powerful, to raise and to depress
 That's why we no longer have "Shell Shock" we have "Post-Traumatic Stress"
 And the only way to keep our precious darlings out of jail
 Is to make them think that they can never fail!
 And now you're
 Screaming for the blood of the underpaid teacher
 After all your taxes pay her yearly 12-G
 You can't change the world, so just change what you call it --
 F is For Almost, That's Good Enough For Me!
 (Bridge!)
 No one understands just how brutal you have it
 You wake up each morning and have to fight traffic
 Then spend all day chained to your laptop and beeper
 Kiss some client's ass and then play some minesweeper
 Then hightail it over to your yoga lessons
 Then lattes, pilates, and therapy sessions
 Where you whine and ramble and dab your eyelids
 And complain that you never get time with your kids!
 Spoken voice 1: Can you tell me, how to get... how to get to hypocrisy street?
 Spoken voice 2: Uh, yeah, that's kinda heavy-handed, there, don't you think?
 Spoken voice 1: Uh, yeah, so's this whole song, so, I'll try it -- why not?
 You've bitched your yuppie heart out, and meddled with the best
 But your brooding fatass offspring keeps deferring his success
 So what the hell's the problem? It surely can't be you!
 It must be all the violence on his PlayStation 2!
 Just look at this atrocity! There's hoodlums, thugs, and skanks
 And chronic-tokin' gangstas running hookers down with tanks
 There's nudity and blood and guts and chainsaws cutting people
 And that's just in the new updated 3-D Tetris sequel!
 And sure there's labels on the games that say that they're, "Mature"
 But now honestly, just who the hell reads labels anymore?
 Tell me, wouldn't it be easier for parents 'cross the land
 If games that aren't for kids were all just banned?
 Now you're
 Screaming for the blood of the game programmer
 Gaming should just be a children's industry
 Pixellated actors should be role models --
 M is For Censored, That's Good Enough For Me!
 Screaming for a new place to point your finger
 Won't rest 'til the whole world is rated "PG"
 Don't stop to think what those letters really stand for
 "M" is for "Censored"
 "F" is for "Almost"
 "C" is for "Lettuce,"
 That's Good Enough For Me!