Manufacture of consent
Turn your fiction into fact
The story's more important
Than the truth
Selective information sold
Won't tell us what we should know
The printed word is set
With biased hands
There it is in black and white
What you can't see and don't hear
What you don't know hurts you
What is not said but instead
What you don't know hurts you
And war looks like a TV game
Entertaining frame by frame
But do we ever really
Know the score?
Cover up and change the view
Suggest the side that we should choose
On the air
Your own official truth
There it is on satellite
What you can't see and don't hear
What you don't know hurts you
What is not said but instead
What you don't know hurts you
What you're not told but are sold
What you don't know hurts you
What is not shown won't be known
What you don't know hurts you
What you see
What you hear
What you read
The safety of complacency
Imagination, scarcity
The camera is asleep on my TV
Opinions formed from what I'm fed
From subtitles that I've read
I read the words
But not between the lines
Hear it on the air
What you can't see and don't hear
What you don't know hurts you
What is not said but instead
What you don't know hurts you
What you're not told but are sold
What you don't know hurts you
What is not shown won't be known
What you don't know hurts you