News Of The World

here's the eighth of the seven wonders, here's the [pay back] without a crimehere's to all the baby-shit so major at the timefrom the last of the great pretenders to the new television ageand the few who still remember passion over rage we changed, we didn't even trywe opened up our mouths (for) telling all those lies to ourselvesand everybody helps [CHORUS:]'cos we're just wanters not needers, hypocrites and cheaters, this is the news of the worldpseudo-heroes masturbating our egos, this is the news of the worldthe news of the world... I could hide in the foreign legion, I could live in the south of FranceI could pick a thousand reasons, given half the chancebut the pricks are the whole world over, every sex, every colour of skinmaybe we're just too far gone to shake the mess we're in we changed, we didn't even trywe opened up our mouths for telling all those lies to ourselvesand everybody helps [CHORUS]take me far away from it all, the news of the world (what's next?) I got my bills to pay(what's next?) I need a holiday(what's next?) I got police upon my back(what's next?) internal politics(what's next?) some humans make me sickthe fakes the judges liars greedthe laws that judge the life I lead, the fucked up shit that I don't need wanters[CHORUS]the news of the world [x4]