Gainsayer

Let's not pretend you're objective

Fact-check into oblivion

You use your weapons like a pro

(The Fourth Estate)

Words can cu t deeper than a sword

Out with the truth, on with the show

Run with the headlines you can sell

(Just give it to us straight)

Woah

The old muck-rakers

Now thought police

(The thought police)

Woah

A true gainsayer

Can sift the chaff from wheat

Not an impartial journalist

Crusading party activist

Exposed as assets of the state

(It's time to clean the slate)

Woah

The old muck-rakers

Now thought police

(The thought police)

Woah

A true gainsayer

Can sift the chaff from wheat

An institution co-opted and captured

Before long you're put out to pasture

The sun sets on the charter of the press

Collapsing mass formation

The sleeping giant will soon awaken

Breaking the shackles of the brainwashed and oppressed

Woah

The old muck-rakers

Now thought police

(The thought police)

Woah

A true gainsayer

Can sift the chaff from wheat

Gripped by your hidden masters

Same old politicasters

Incentive structure built on grift and gain

You sold us out for power

These are the final hours

A house divided can't withstand the strain