your living in other people’s lives

doesn’t seem to be doing you a lot of use

believing in other people’s lies

it’s getting pretty hard to tell the truth

when you read the papers

when you read the papers

you’re being told the easy side of life

exactly as it appears from the outside

now you know why the truth comes in disguise

it’s the backward side, some new ones arrive

when you read the papers

when you read the papers

when you get to heaven

you’ll meet them all again

the cast of thousands

spouting out of the corporate pen

demanding our money

to make up something new

starring new combinations

of the tried and twisted truth

all the human torches

catching fire

corrupt officials

getting caught

poor and the needy

robbers and killers

bankrupt stars [unintelligible] near-collisions

withhold your dreams

rape

runaway wives

other people’s lives

births

deaths

loonie left

murder, divorce, suicide

political intrigues, hospital cases

british weapons to foreign places

earthquake, flood

bodies in the mud

poison, crowds

a cast of thousands

god, man: open fire