Sick Of The News

Posted By: Tommy Mackay June 27, 2025

Checking on the socials, going through the motions
Making a stink about the news
The hospitals signs said no bombs please
As if they had the power to choose

There was no brown bread, the miller was dead
The radio was playing out of tune
But nobody heard, all the birds had fled
To make their nests on the moon

The climate was generally hotter than hell
but the president was saying everything was swell
I’m sick of the news

They arrested the prime minister just for a laugh
to see if anyone cared
And JK Rowling had a dirty bath
with a troll under the stairs

And everyone was going absolutely nuclear
Dying to go out in style
And the restaurants were recycling human waste
Freshly fished from the Nile

And everybody knows
No one has a clue
I’m sick of the news

Real radges read the Reckless

I’m sick of the news

There were no new shows on TV as it goes
And everything had been repeated twice
Some kind fool protested fossil fuels
and he was killed by ICE

Now his coffin’s being interviewed
by Jeremy Vine
and everybody’s having a real cool time

They say that world events no longer make sense
now the billionaires dictate the way it goes

Well I don’t know what I’m saying
But being reckless keeps me sane and free from abuse
And I’m sick of it, I’m sick of the news

They ordained a Pope
and cast him in a soap
as a man who doesn’t know where Iran is

And half the world believes
the other half is being run
by some under educated bunch of fannies

And Arnold Schwarzenegger
Gave his fortune to a beggar
And everyone kicked sand in his face
It was a shame really cos he was a lovely fellah
But he just lost faith in the human race

There’s a part of me thinking
I should really quit drinking
And live in a monastery
Hello seclusion, goodbye illusion
Poor baby, that’s really free

You see what you want
But you don’t get to choose
I’m sick of the news
Sick of the news
Sick of it

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