Interpret:

Switchfoot

Album:

Vice Verses

Welcome to the holy city a silver screen 
Built with the lens and a low self esteem 
A teenagers plea for meaning and means 
Were selling the news 
See opinions are easier to swallow than facts 
The grays instead of the whites and the blacks 
If you shoot it too straight they wont come back 
Were selling the news 
See money speaks volumes louder than words 
And virtues with wings maybe not quite at first 
But their salaries are paying for the ad not the verbs 
Were selling the news 
See all men are equal all is for sale 
The powerful dog has been chasing his tail 
The lowest common denominator prevails 
Were selling the news 


I want to believe you 
I want to believe but everything is in between 
The fact is fiction 
The fact is fiction 
I want to believe you 
I want to believe but everything is in between 
The fact is fiction 
Suspicion is a new religion 


America listens the story is told 
Of our aim on truth the story unfolds 
The ratings determine the story was sold 
Were selling the news 
Begging the question longer in fear 
Poking the eyes and tickling ears 
It's seldom just as it appears 
Were selling the news 


I can see your darkened heads 
On the television set 
On the internet it's said 
The fact is fiction 
Suspicion is a new religion 


Substance oh substance where have you been 
You've been replaced by the masters of spin 
You make good looking books and write mystery in 
Were 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 
When nothing is sacred there's nothing to lose 
When nothing is sacred all is consumed 
Were still on the air it must be the truth 
Were selling the news