Spin Cycle

You're not here, there's a sense of fear

Everyone's fighting, they want to be heard

The exit's dead, that it's too late

The people have spoken but where are they now?

I don't know what is real

Who is right, what I feel anymore

And I'm not sure what's the truth of it all

Please won't somebody tell me the score

Follow me, follow me, follow me

Huh, I follow who?

I see you, hooked up on my feed too

So see through, another slow news day

What the people say, spin doctor gotta get paid

Watch which way the poll swings

As the story evolves from rational to revolting

Revolving door debate centred on the he said, she said

Blind being willingly led

Shock jock jumping off the deep end again

Scratching empty heads, intellectual dead ends

These are our core beliefs, our mission statement

That's until the public says they hate them

Then it's time for the elegant backflip

Some eloquent bullshit, one news cycle and that's it

Use the stats to cover up facts

But 77% of people know that

And the polls put us in the lead

We're out in front, we have everything that you need

We'll be what you believe

We'll be what you need

The illusion of conversation that we participate in

This echo chamber's going round in circles

I'll be what you need

I'll be what you believe

Enough of your polling (avoided the surprise)

Enough of that whole thing (that got us paralysed)

Enough with the holding information, analyse

Speaking out before the findings of the focus group is ill-advised

But the findings isn't getting wise

What do you think? I mean, seriously, what do you think?

Not the pitter-patter, bitter-fatter media print

Where you don't even sound convinced

Ironic given we're the herd, but these are my words

Imagine if I surveyed you people each verse

And delivered in a country slang for the people in Bourke

Demographically more flexible if we don't curse

But fuck that for a joke, I won't fall for that

Yep, the stakes are high but the fault of that

What am I, a robot with a battery pack

Re-enacting a rap with the best reactions?

Just won't happen, there is no old Tim

There is no new Tim, there is just Tim

With an ability to say what I think

Without the need of a group, yo, to give me the hint

And the polls put us in the lead

We're out in front, we have everything that you need

We'll be what you believe

We'll be what you need

The illusion of conversation that we participate in

This echo chamber's going round in circles

I'll be what you need

I'll be what you believe