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#FAKENEWS

by Jim Testa

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Written for Speak Into My Good Eye's 2017 24 Hour Songwriting Challenge

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FAKE NEWS by Jim Testa (copyright 2017 Jersey Beat Music)

A hundred channels and you’ll always see
You never get two of them to quite agree
Who what where when, what’s the mystery?
Stop the world, I just wanna leave

Hannity and Tucker always see it one way
Rachel Maddow comes on and blows them both away
Then CBS says it never happened anyway
And I don’t know what to believe

#Fake news
#Fake news
just gimme some truth, I don’t need your slanted views

Politicians lie, baby that’s a fact
Sometimes they do it stealth and tact
Trump wouldn’t know the truth if it stabbed him in the back
If fills me with dread and fear

Trump tweets something awful every day
Sarah Huckabee swears he didn’t mean that way
Then Trump doubles down on the damn thing anyway
and Jesus sheds a little tear

Harry heard this thing that made him all bitter
Saw it again on Facebook and Twitter
Planted by the Russians but didn’t know any better
So he didn’t vote for Hilary

Now Santa’s lost, he wails and moans
On Maddow, On Blitzer, On Alex Jones!
The north wind blows and chills my bones
and the future’s so hard to see

The founding fathers right outta the gate
Said America needed a fourth estate
the first amendment ain’t something you debate
In a democracy

so we’ll search for the story, they keep obfuscating
We’ll stick to the facts and they’ll be bloviating
we’ll fight for the freedoms they keep violating
and the truth will set us free

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released November 2, 2017
Written and recorded by Jim Testa

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Jim Testa is best known as the editor of Jersey Beat but also sings and plays guitar (sort of.) He is heavily inspired by John Prine, Tom Lehrer, and Jean Shepherd.

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