Fake News
There’s a freak just down the street who thinks the Earth is flat,
And when I look in the mirror I think I’m not that fat,
Til I stare at the dents in the chair where my arse was sat,
Then I get the blues.
So I get my computer and surf the internet,
Cos that’s a place reality is easy to forget,
And there’s a fool to fuel any fantasy you get:
They call it fake news.
Fake news!
When the world is too depressing:
Fake news!
When the truth needs some finessing:
Fake news!
When your life needs window dressing:
Fake news!
Fake news!
Get the truth from social media:
Fake news!
Get your facts from Wikipedia:
Fake news!
While the world gets ever seedier:
Fake news!
There’s a orange man runs a country some folk think is a god,
Which given the biblical size of his sins is rather odd,
And in a political shit storm he’s a shit lightning rod,
Who’s got ‘em confused.
Cos anytime anyone stands up and calls him a liar,
He looks ‘em right back in the eye all the while with his pants on fire,
And says it’s a left-wing conspiracy, can’t you see them conspire
With all their fake news?
Fake news!
Colluding with the Russians:
Fake news!
Porn star got you blushing:
Fake news!
Excluding all discussion:
Fake news!
Fake news!
When truth is back to front just show some front:
Fake news!
They say your brain’s stunted call it a stunt:
Fake news!
Run a country as a complete …
Fake news!
Hide the truth behind an edit:
Fake news!
Then pretend you never said it:
Fake news!
Redact and don’t regret it:
Fake news!
There’s a guy I know who thinks man didn’t land on the moon,
Now you can think, like me, that man is some kind of loon,
But when the world’s an asylum he could be running it soon
And we have to choose.
Cos the truth’s like a little boy who cried wolf too many times,
And now nobody comes when that wolf howls and whines,
And now the truth is buried somewhere the sun don’t shine,
Under all this fake news.
Fake news
Find another guilty party:
Fake news,
When it’s you that’s being farty:
Fake news,
Or blame the Illuminati:
Fake news!
Fake news!
When the world is too absurd:
Fake news!
When life flips you the bird,
Fake news!
When the truth can’t flush the turd:
Fake news!
Copyright Stephen Picton (2019)
