Newsstand Rock (exposition)

Now America's got a brand new war

Can anybody tell me what we're fighting for?

Time to manufacture the illusion of safety

Don't fear, just consume to uphold the economy

Yeah, we always buy everything that they're sellin'

Everything that they're sellin'

Payin' for the bombs that fall on our children

Now we're headed for our own demise

Dreaming of another mushroom cloud horizon

And that's the bottom line

So it's time to cancel my subscription

I just can't stomach any more of their lies

Violence equals violence and it's no solution

And that's the bottom line (yeah, that's the bottom line)

Now turn on the radio and hear what it's sayin'

Another hollow candy-coated melody about nothing

Easier to sell it, don't require you to think

Dumbed down drool, a facade success

Yeah, we're still buyin' everything that they're sellin'

Everything that they're sellin'

Now I'm looking for the truth and solid meaning

So I can scrape the glass off both of my eyes

Stuffed to the gills with a false sense of substance

And now I realize

So it's time to cancel my subscription

I just can't stomach any more of the lies

Wealth, the spectacle of a greedy solution

And that's the bottom line

Oh, the bottom line

(That's the bottom line)

Now I'm not buyin' anything that they're sellin'

Not givin' in this time, this time, this time

Payin' for the bombs that fall on our children

Now we're headed for our own demise

Dreaming of another mushroom cloud horizon

And that's the bottom line

So it's time to cancel my subscription

I just can't stomach any more of the lies

Violence equals violence and it's no solution

And that's the bottom line

Oh, it's the bottom line

Yeah, it's the bottom line tonight