Ray Davies, released on Other People's Lives (solo) © Davray Music Ltd. 2006
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Can't believe what I just read
Gossip on the Internet
Now the tabloids have the news
Cross my heart it just ain't true
I never thought it of you
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Name names and every line
Is feeding their suspicious minds
I'm not bitter or angry
I'm only feeling sympathy
You really found the time
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To feed the reporter with your views
See the reporter break the news
Read the reporter, join the queue
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Spread the news, scandalize
Words cut like a thousand knives
Take the cash, bag the prize
For playing games with other people's lives
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See the reporter break the news
Read the reporter, join the queue
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Eat it up, take a bite
Feed the reader's appetite
They'll swallow anything you write
As long as it's in black and white
And full of titillation
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I can't believe what I just read
Excuse me, I just vomited
Tell your story, it's your call
So autobiographical
But oh, so trivial
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Feed the reporter
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They put it on the Internet
To help improve the circulation
They'll pepper it with lies
It's only other people's lives
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Feed the reporter
Read the reporter
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Politicians dressed in drag
Careers stopped with quick back stab
While anonymous informer flees
And leaves us with our fantasy
And erotic visions
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Who did what, when, to whom
In the dominatrix room?
Tabloids daily titillate
Each sordid tale reverberates
All across the nation
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(What can I say?)
Feed the reporter
(It's a vendetta)
Read the reporter
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A rumor then a vicious phrase
A poison pen can wreck your day
And weather[?] words that crucify
As tabloid judges sharpen up their knives
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Read the reporter
Black and white
See the reporter
Victimize
See a poor sucker
Crucified
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To stop the truth, so tell your lies
Betray your friends and get the prize
The dagger's in, now twist the knife
The gutter's full of other people's lives
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