Burn-In

 

The moment of impact at “Media Burn” in 1975 as a Cadillac rammed a mountain of TVs 

A lyric using a metaphor of the burned-in CRT for being burned-in by the time you're 28. 

The screen is off
But you see a ghost
The ghost is the word
You saw the most
It's what you see
On the cathode ray
Shown on the tube
Every single day

It's burned in
It's burnin'
It's burned in
(Burned into the tube)
It's burned in
It's burnin'
It's burned in
(Burned into the grooves)

They always say
It's your 8 to 28
But in the end
It's never ever late

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