I'm the lucky one
Always having fun
I tie back my hair

I sit and watch T.V.
I see only me
Though I look for you there

Oh, where have you gone?
Were you canceled?
I change to channel 2
You were the one
Who gave me all my answers
I changed
So did you

Try another show
with the volume low
I make up what they say
Where it used to be your face
Is an empty face
Your co-stars look away

Oh, where have you gone
And do you miss me
And what we used to do?
You were the one
Who'd talk and smile for half an hour
Always new

I'm the lucky one
I watch a re-run
It looks a lot like you

One star lost a family
One family lost a star
That's why I wait and watch
To find out where you are

One family lost a star
One star, they lost their family
That's why I sit at home alone
And watch T.V.

I can watch forever
I can watch for hours
It just gets better
It gives me power
I can watch for hours
I can watch forever
It gives me pleasure
It makes me better

I'm the lucky one
Always having fun



Lyrics submitted by Mopnugget

Track duration: 03:07

"Watch T.V." as written by Melora "rasputina" Creager

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    General Comment:i think this song is about a family (or group of close friends) and one of them gets famous, and forgets about his past friends/family.
    one member of the old group continues to watch his shows after everyone else forgets about him ( you co-stars look away)
    this person continues to hang to anything they can get of the old friend even after he dies/ retires.
    Flag heliceonon October 10, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:mmm gosh it has nothing to do with tv!
    i think it's more like: watch tv would be a metaphore for living her life

    "I sit and Watch T.V.
    I see only me.
    Though I look for you there"

    I'm here living but there's only me, where are you now?

    "Oh, where have you gone?
    Were you canceled?
    I change to channel 2.
    You were the one
    Who gave me all my answers.
    I changed
    So did you."

    once again she's saying thu metaphores: where are you now? why did it have to end? "to change the chanel" i think would be to try another thing, like, try an affair with another person.. and then again she says he was the special one for her and it was over.

    "Try another show.
    With the volume low.
    I make up what they say.
    Where it used to be your face
    Is an empty space
    Your co-stars look away."

    and

    "I'm the lucky one.
    I watch a re-run.
    It looks a lot like you."

    She's trying to get on with someone else carefully, but apparently it's not working.. even though she's trying another relationship she can't just replace replace him.

    "One star lost a family
    One family lost a star.
    That's why I wait and watch
    To find out where you are"

    taking in consideration melora loves playing with words and what our mate said up there that it relates to a battle in the afterlife, i think it could be something like: the missing person is dead and now she refers to him as a star. now she sits and watches as her days goes by till she meets him in afterlife.
    well that's my guess :)))


    Flag istillbelieveon December 14, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:i'm almost positive that the meaning she stated for this song was a joke, poking fun at herself for lifting the lines from something so shallow/unrelated (evidence by the audience's laughter on the video)... my guess is that the christian and anti-christian being referenced on E! have absolutely no bearing on the meaning of the song. She just took the two lines abouts stars/families out of conext. i guess you'd call that inspiration. or something.

    i didn't listen to the song before reading the lyrics, but i read through the lyrics about 5 times... by the third time, i became convinced that 1. someone had died, 2. it was another girl who the narrarator was close with and 3. this song is about the narrarator's denial about the loss. I'm pretty sure it's not a cousin or a friend, but a sister. Bear with me.

    i concluded the death from a few things, like the fact that this seems to be a monologue to someone unaware that they're being spoken to, and, more specifically, the lines "One star lost a family
    One family lost a star". i'm assuming "family" is literal. Maybe the dead person was the "star" because she was the baby of the family, nadfrom her sibling's perspective, recieved unfair attention.
    Another reason i don't think the dead person is literally a star of a tv show, or that the show itself is the dead (person?) is because of the line "i'm the lucky one". This really stuck out to me as something that's said about someone with regard to their relationship with someone they're close with. In other words, between two people, specifically of the same gender, there's a natural rivalry that develops, and when one is inevitably jealous of the other, it's quite cliche to state something along the lines of, "well, you're the lucky one", maybe from the nerdy, unattractive, or quiet girl to the prettier, more outgoing, or more popular girl. In the song, this line is followed by, "always having fun", a typical misconception between sisters who fight over petty things because the real bone they have to pick stems from, again, jealousy. So, that's why i think dead (younger) sister.

    Another reason i don't think it's just about a cancelled tv show (even taking into acount the possibility that the speaker is crazy) is the part where she makes up new lines for the people on tv. This sounds like a game people might play when they get bored of reruns (like on that show called Whose Line is it Anyway?, they called this game Film Dub...). So, now that the sister is dead, the narrarator tries to pretend that she's still alive by looking for her on the tv shows that they used as half-hour bonding time.

    i think that guilt plays a role in this, too, just because the younger sister was jealous of diferent things, like the nararator's "fun", and i'm guessing, her hair as well "i tie back my hair" just made me think of two girls: one with long, pretty hair, and the other who wished her hair was long. and maybe during tiffs and general rough patches in their relationship, the nararator would purposely wear her hair out, to make her shorter-haired sister jealous. But when things were peaceful between them, and they played little games with the tv, the nararator would tie her hair back, to a) keep it from drawing attention to a topic of previous tension, and b) as something symbolic. kind of a peace offering: "i know certain things make you jealous, but i'm putting all that stuff aside so that you and i can be close."

    but i could be completely wrong, and maybe it really is a battle in the afterlife lol

    EDIT: looking through the words one more time, i noticed the lines, "You were the one/
    Who'd talk and smile for half an hour"... maybe the sisters didn't play together, but the nararator would sit back and listen, and maybe belittle her sister for playing the game ("that's dumb, why don't you just watch it like a normal person, or let me pick the show?"). so the narrarator didn't play with her, but the sister played on her own. But now that she's gone, the narrarator takes her place by citing lines for her... just a thought...

    P.S. i'd like to formally apologise for my inability to spell "narrarrator", along with about 50 other words in here that probably have their vowels all outta whack....
    Flag jazzy06792on August 11, 2009   Link
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    My Interpretation:I feel like she watches TV as a way of escaping from her life, so I can take the anxiety about a show being cancelled or an actor leaving a show literally. Because she is so emotionally invested in the TV world, she becomes extremely agitated when that world is disrupted. As she becomes aware of her projection of her fantasies onto the screen ("With the volume low / I make up what they say"), she is forced to face the unpleasant realities of her life ("I sit and watch TV / I see only me / Though I look for you there"). She must redouble her efforts to convince herself that living vicariously through the people on TV does "give her pleasure" and power and all the things she needs it to do.

    A satire of TV culture. Watching TV is a totally passive, unproductive activity, but we convince ourselves it's a deeply fulfilling and empowering one because we need it as a defense mechanism to stave off the realization that we lead empty, meaningless lives.
    Flag tommythecat42on November 20, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:CCBUBBLEGUM Finally someone on here who has a fucking brain. Ive been waiting for one of these 15 yr old kids to say "Its about herion" or some such nonsense.
    Flag exconvictaryanon October 06, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:To explain how that works line by line:

    "I sit and watch TV, I see only me, though I look for you there"
    She's looking for the missing person in the situation she's in, not on the TV she's watching. Or: she's trying to evoke the feeling of being around him.

    "Oh, where have you gone? Oh, were you canceled?"
    She's wondering what happened to him and 'canceled' possibly means 'dead.'
    "I change to channel 2."
    Just literal narration of what she's doing (also, it artistically parallels the upcoming mention of people changing).
    "You were the one who gave me all my answers. I changed; so did you."
    Simply: the missing person is important to her and now he's inaccessible.

    "Try another show, with the volume low. I make up what they say."
    More literal narration; she's not really into what she's watching.
    "What used to be your face is an empty space. Your co-stars look away."
    The person she's addressing is gone. By "co-stars," she means his former associates.

    "Where have you gone and do you miss me and what we used to do? You were the one who'd talk and smile for half an hour always new."
    They used to watch TV together, just like she is now, and talk and joke... and that is why she watches TV now.

    "I'm the lucky one, I watch a re-run. It looks a lot like you."
    She catches a show or episode they used to watch together and recaptures for a moment the feeling of being with him.

    "One star lost a family, one family lost a star. That's why I wait and watch to find out where you are [/That's why I sit at home alone and watch TV]."
    This works particularly well when I picture the missing person as her brother: her family lost him, he lost his family, and that separation is why she watches TV to remember him.

    "I can watch forever, I can watch for hours [etc.]"
    Again, watching TV is therapeutic for her.

    "I'm the lucky one. Always having fun."
    This line is ironic at both the beginning and end of the song (the music makes that rather clear). TV is typically used as entertainment, so the girl declares herself "always having fun" because she spends so much time watching, but the watching is actually a solemn and somewhat desperate act in her case. It draws an analogy to socially drinking vs. "drinking to forget" in my mind.
    Flag ccbubblegumon August 04, 2008   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:I get the image of the narrator/watcher having lost touch with someone and thinking about time they used to spend together. Her watching TV serves as the setting during which the song takes place, so her contemplations are expressed in TV-oriented language and metaphors for artistic effect!

    Also, because all the songs on the album "How We Quit The Forest" kinda run together for me, I imagine this being told from the point of view of the sister in "Trenchmouth," recalling times spent watching TV with her now-missing brother, haha. Before that, I thought of the narrator speaking of an ex-boyfriend specifically.

    Either way, I never picture the narrator -literally- missing a TV show or movie star or any such thing, but rather, using the TV watching as a vehicle for thinking about an acquaintance.
    Flag ccbubblegumon August 04, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I can imagine two things. Either someone who is or isn't famous looking for the other on the tv. The famous person is looking for other faces that aren't all the same and/or the civilian is looking for someone who use to be famous(a has-been).
    Flag silverbaalon October 27, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:EDIT: woops:

    The lyrics from the chorus was stolen from an E! channel special: "When family lost a star, when star lost a family" the family that lost a star was that of TV's greatest, Michael Landon. The star that lost his family i dont remember, but the song represents a battle in the afterlife.... between TV's greatest star, Michael Landon and... the star that lost his family. It represents a battle in the afterlife, between good and evil, you choose which is good, and which is evil. A battle... to the Death... in the afterlife.

    As said by Melora Creager herself, lmao!
    Flag PeachFanon August 26, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:The lyrics from the chorus was stolen from an E! channel special: "When family lost a star, when star lost a family" the family that lost a star was that of TV's greatest, Michael Landon. The star that lost his family i dont remember, but the song represents a battle in the afterlife.... between TV's greatest star, Michael Landon and... the star that lost his family. It represents a battle in the afterlife, between good and evil. A battle... to the Death... in the afterlife.

    As said by Melora Creager herself, lmao!
    Flag PeachFanon August 26, 2007   Link

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