Selling the News Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]Welcome to the Holy
City; the silver screen
Built with the [G#]lends of the low self esteem
[F]A teenager's plea for meaning
and means
[Em]We're selling the news

[Verse 2]
See, opin[Am]ions are easier
to swallow than facts
The greys in[G#]stead of the whites
and the black[F]s
If you shoot it too straight it
won't come back
[Em]We're selling [C]the news
[Em]See,

[Verse 3]
[Am]money speaks volumes
louder than words
And virtues with [G#]wings,
maybe not quite at [F]first
But salaries are payed with the
eyes not the verbs
We're [Em]selling the news

[Verse 4]
See, [Am]all men are equal; all is for sale
A powerful [G#]dog has been chasing his [F]tale
The lowest common denomin
[Fm]ator pre[F]vails
We're selling the [C]news[F][Am]

[Verse 5]
I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The [F]The fact is fiction,
[Em]the fact is fic[Am]tion

[Verse 6]
[Am]I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The [F]The fact is fic[Am]tion
[F]Suspicion is [Em]the n[Am]ew religion
[G#][Am][F][Am][Em]

[Verse 7]
[Am]America listens as the story is told
With the eye [G#]on the truth
as the story unfold[F]s
But the ratings determine
which story was sold
We're [Em]selling the news
[Am]Begging

[Verse 8]
the question,
mongering fears
Stroking the eyes [G#]an d tickling ears
The [F]truth is seldom just as it appears
We're selling [Em]the news
[C]I

[Verse 9]
[Am]wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The [F]The fact is fic[Am]tion,
[F]the[Em] fact is fictio[Am]n

[Verse 10]
[Am]I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The [F]The fact is fic[Am]tion,
[F]the[Em] fact is fictio[Am]n
[E]I can

[Verse 11]
[Am]see your talking heads
On [F]the television [E]set[Em]
On the [Am]Internet they said
The fact [F]is fiction

[Verse 12]
Suspi[Em]cion is the new reli
[Am]gion
[G#][F]

[Verse 13]
[Em]
[Am]Substance, oh, substance,
where have you been?
You've [G#]been replaced by
the masters of spin
Who make [F]good looking books
and write history in
We're [Em]selling the news

[Verse 14]
The lines [Am]start to blur; I get
so confused
[G#]They get shiny new models mixed
up with the blues
They get [F]binary code mixed up with abuse
The [Am]facts [E]are simply one option to choose
[Am]When nothing

[Verse 15]
is sacred,
there's nothing to lose
When noth[E]ing is sac[G#]red,
all is consumed
We're [F]still on the air,
it must be the truth
We're [Em]selling [Am]the news

[Verse 16]
[Am]I wanna believe you,
I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The [F]The fact is fic[Am]tion,
[F]the[Em] fact is [Am]fiction

[Verse 17]
[Am]I wanna believe you, I wanna believe
But everything is in-between
The The fact is fiction,
[F]the[Em] fact is fictio[Am]n[Em]

[Verse 18]
I [Am]wanna believe you, I wanna
believe
But everything [C]I see is green
[Am]The [F]fact is fiction

[Verse 19]
Sus[Em]picion is the new [Am]religion

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