Why I Stopped Watching the News

[Intro]
Why I stopped watching the news, hmm
Let me see, let me see um
It's hard, it's hard to come by
Why I stopped watching the news

[Verse]
I know that life is too short to believe all these stories
This can't be the way that this person chose to die
Had a knife and did what?
Got excited and said what?
Grabbed a gun and went buck
This is an authority foundation
Spread by a storytime station
Live long enough to see people die
Live long enough to not wanna die
Live long enough to know how we die
Live long enough to start asking why
These morbid vultures exist
Disease carriers exploiting risk
Pick pockets of salvation
Eternally disgracing, displacing
Fait and replace it with impatience
A dirt culture in touch with the inner vulgar
When I was about 23 I stopped watching MTV
When I was about 27 I stopped watching CNN
And when I was about 33 I stopped watching MSNBC
Cold turkey
Poison information is worse than poisoned food
Its better to be a fat smart person than a stupid mule
Back loaded rumor mills exploding
The wind can no longer give energy to that
Contemplate what kind of at
You see where this is going
Cleverly showing, trust them as far as I can throw them
The storyteller of our era is the editor
Reshape the landscape like English settlers
Who's line is it anyway?
Ad-lib the future, improv the present
Don't too heavily distract from the rented message
Because ad time is expensive
I went outside and saw a human being choked to death
Screaming "I can't breath"
And it makes no sense
Spoken nonsense leading to no sentance
And you ask me with cold breath
Why I stop watching the news