Selling the News

"Selling the News" is the sixth track on Switchfoot's eighth album, Vice Verses.

Lyrics
Welcome to holy city of silver screen 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 blacks If you shoot it too straight they won’t come back 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 bird We’re selling the news

See all men are equal all is for sale A powerful dog been chasing his tail The lowest common denominator prevails 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 is 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 You’ve been replaced by the masters of spin Who make good looking books and write history in We’re selling the news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 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

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