Selling the News

Welcome to the holy city a silver screen

Built with the lens and a low self esteem

A teenagers plea for meaning and means

Were selling the news

See opinions are easier to swallow than facts

The grays instead of the whites and the blacks

If you shoot it too straight they wont come back

Were selling the news

See money speaks volumes louder than words

And virtues with wings maybe not quite at first

But their salaries are paying for the ad not the verbs

Were selling the news

See all men are equal all is for sale

A powerful dog has been chasing his tail

The lowest common denominator prevails

Were selling the news

I want to believe you

I want to believe but everything is in between

The fact is fiction

The fact is fiction

I want to believe you

I want to believe but everything is in between

The fact is fiction

Suspicion is a new religion

America listens the story is told

Of our aim on truth the story unfolds

The ratings determine the story was sold

Were selling the news

Begging the question longer in fear

Stroking the eyes and tickling ears

It's seldom just as it appears

Were selling the news

I want to believe you

I want to believe but everything is in between

The fact is fiction

The fact is fiction

I want to believe you

I want to believe but everything is in between

The fact is fiction

Suspicion is a new religion

I can see your talking heads

On the television set

On the internet they said

That fact is fiction

Suspicion is a new religion

Substance oh substance where have you been

You've been replaced by the masters of spin

who make good looking books and write history in

Were selling the news

The lines start to blur I get so confused

I get shiny new models mixed up with the blues

I get binary code mixed up with abuse

The facts are simply one option to choose

When nothing is sacred there's nothing to lose

When nothing is sacred all is consumed

Were still on the air it must be the truth

Were selling the news

I want to believe you

I want to believe but everything is in between

The fact is fiction

The fact is fiction

I want to believe you

I want to believe but everything is in between

The fact is fiction

I want to believe you

I want to believe but everything I see is greed

The fact is fiction

Suspicion is a new religion