FMV Senate Scandal

Lyrics

[Intro]
You were just a story told in video grain,
a digital picture in the acid rain.
Five teenage girls, a slumber party scene,
filmed on a soundstage, 1991, mean.

[Verse 1]
The Augers are coming, clumsy in the dark,
just actors in costumes, trying to leave a mark.
My job wasn't violence, it wasn't to kill,
just watch the cameras, a voyeur's cheap thrill.
Press a red button, a trap door springs,
the tamest of horrors, the song a VCR sings.
No blood on the carpet, no gore on the screen,
just a B-movie promise, campy and lean.

[Chorus]
But they put your disc on display, a national shame,
December 9, 1993, they're screaming your name.
Senator Lieberman points at the screen,
calls you an outrage, obscene and unclean.
From a CRT glow to a hearing room's glare,
Night Trap, Night Trap, they're selling fear.

[Verse 2]
It's 9:30 in the morning, the lights are so bright,
on the polished wood tables, a televised fight.
Senator Kohl holds you up for the press,
the cover art a confession of moral excess.
He never saw the trapdoor, he never saw the code,
just the woman in lingerie, a heavy, sinful load.
They're playing back the footage, the color all bleeds,
planting the seeds of a thousand misdeeds.

[Chorus]
And they put your disc on display, a national shame,
December 9, 1993, they're screaming your name.
Senator Lieberman points at the screen,
calls you an outrage, obscene and unclean.
From a CRT glow to a hearing room's glare,
Night Trap, Night Trap, they're selling fear.

[Bridge]
Rob Fulop just made a game, a ghost in the machine,
and the five uncredited girls from that slumber party scene...
Did they ever know they were Exhibit A?
In a culture war that started that day?
A shiny new rating, a sticker on the box,
built on the panic of ticking clocks.

[Outro]
Just a game...
Just a grainy, flickering flame...
They were never afraid of you.
They were afraid of what was new.