From the recording Commercial Break
Lyrics
I
Can’t watch
You well-dressed newspeople
Read your lines
Behind your perfect hair
Preen, and groom
And take good care of the
Brand you sell
By keeping people scared
Talking heads interrupting each other
Making sure it’s a narrow debate
You’re just a business and news is a cover
To fill up the space between commercial breaks
I, don’t need
Your thoughts and prayers
How about instead
You do your bloody job
And tell
The truth
To help things change
‘Cause the world right now
Is a bunch of angry mobs
Talking heads interrupting each other
Making sure it’s a narrow debate
You’re just a business and news is a cover
To fill up the space between commercial breaks
While the icecaps are melting
And the oceans are rising
And the Amazon shrinking
And corruption surviving
Vote the less of two evils
So we keep downward spiralling
Power’s not for the people
It’s corporations deciding
Talking heads interrupting each other
Making sure it’s a narrow debate
You’re just a business and news is a cover
To fill up the space between commercial breaks
