In the news today, from the strange and weird fact file Singer Michael Jackson sleeps in an oxygen chamber The singer says that the hyperbaric chamber has the benefit of reversing The aging process Speculate to break the one you hate Circulate the lie you confiscate Assassinate and mutilate It's the hounding media in hysteria Who's the next for you to resurrect? JFK exposed the CIA Truth be told the grassy knoll It's the blackmail story in all your glory It's slander You say it's not a sword But with your pen you torture men You'd crucify the Lord And you don't have to read it And you don't have to eat it To buy it is to feed it Then why do we keep foolin' ourselves Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual Though everybody wants to read all about it Just because you read it in a magazine You see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual, actual They say he's homosexual In the hood Frame him if you could Shoot to kill To blame him if you will If he dies sympathize Such false witnesses Damn self righteousness In the black Stab me in the back In the face To lie and shame the race Heroine and Marilyn It's the headline story of All your glory It's slander With the words you use You're parasite in black and white Do anything for news And you don't go and buy it And they don't glorify it To read it sanctifies it Then why do we keep foolin' ourselves (Beat it) Just because you read it in a magazine (Beat it) You see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual Everybody wants to read all about it Just because you read it in a magazine You see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual See, and everybody wants to believe all about it Just because you read it in a magazine Believe me Or see it on the TV screen (Beat it) Don't make it factual (Beat it) See, but everybody wants to believe all about it Baby Just because you read it in a magazine (Beat it) You see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual, actual She's blonde and she's bisexual Scandal With the words you use You're a parasite in black and white Do anything for news And you don't go and buy it And they don't glorify it To read it sanctifies it Why do we keep foolin' ourselves Slander You say it's not a sin But with your pen you torture men But why do we keep foolin' ourselves (Beat it) Just because you read it in a magazine (Beat it) Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual (Beat it) Though everybody wants to read all about it Just because you read it in a magazine You see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual See, but everybody wants to read all about it (Beat it) Just because you read it in a magazine (Beat it) You see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual Just because you read it in a magazine You see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual (Gotta believe) Just because you read it in a magazine You see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual, actual You're so damn disrespectable