Tabloid Junkie
Michael Jackson - HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I

Speculate to break the one you hate

Circulate the lie you confiscate

Assassinate and mutilate

As the hounding media in hysteria

Who’s the next for you to resurrect

JFK exposed the CIA

Truth be told the grassy knoll

As 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, read it

And you don’t have to eat it, eat it

To buy it is to feed it, feed it

So 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

Or 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

As the headline stories of

All your glory

It’s slander

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, buy it

And they won’t glorify it, ‘fy it

To read it sanctifies it, ‘fies 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

Everybody wants to read all about it

Just because you read it in a magazine

Or see it on the TV screen

Don’t make it factual

See, but everybody wants to believe all about it

Just because you read it in a magazine

Or see it on the TV screen

Don’t make it factual

See, but everybody wants to believe all about it

Just because you read it in a magazine

Or 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, buy it

And they won’t glorify it, ‘fy it

To read it sanctifies it, ‘fies it

Why do we keep foolin’ ourselves

Slander

You say it’s not a sin

But with your pen you torture men

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

Or see it on the TV screen

Don’t make it factual

See, but everybody wants to read all about it

Just because you read it in a magazine

Or see it on the TV screen

Don’t make it factual

Just because you read it in a magazine

Or see it on the TV screen

Don’t make it factual

Just because you read it in a magazine

Or see it on the TV screen

Don’t make it factual, actual

You’re so damn disrespectable

Written and Composed by Michael Jackson, James Harris III and Terry Lewis.
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