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