Built with a lens and a low self esteem

A teenager's plea for meaning and means

We're selling the news



See opinions are easier to swallow than facts

The greys instead of the whites and the blacks

We're selling the news



See money speaks volumes louder than words

Or virtues with wings, maybe not quite at first

But salaries are paid by the ads not the birds

We're selling the news



See all men are equal, all is for sale

A powerful dog that's been chasing his tail

We're selling the news



I want to believe you 

I want to believe

But everything here's in between

The fact is fiction

The fact is fiction



I want to believe you 

I want to believe

But everything here's in between

The fact is fiction

Suspicion is the new religion



America listens, the story is told

With an eye on the truth as the story unfolds

But the ratings determine if story was sold

We're selling the news



Begging the question, mongering fears

Stroking the eyes and tickling ears

The truth is seldom just as it appears

we're selling the news



I want to believe you 

I want to believe

But everything here's in between

The fact is fiction



I can see your talking heads

ON the television set

On the internet they said

The fact is fiction

Suspicion is the 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You've been replaced by the masters of spin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

We're selling the news



The lines start to blur, I get so confuesed

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



Where nothing is sacred, there's nothing to lose

Where nothing is sacred, all is consumed

We're still on the air, it must be the truth

We're selling the news



I want to believe you

I want to believe

But everything I see is greed

The fact is fiction

Suspicion is the new religion