We take what we want Divide it by 2 Collect what remains And give it to you Cars in a line Wait for disease The heart and the mind Times it by 3 Of what have we become A people tried and true We're limping through today Repeat the nightly news When fear has won the day We're handcuffed by the rules Not thinking for ourselves Recite the nightly news They tell us we're doomed So don't leave the house The science is in Don't run your mouth Resistance is rogue So futile and thin Your leader's dead wrong Don't listen to him Of what have we become A people tried and true We're limping through today Repeat the nightly news When fear has won the day And apathy is cruel Not thinking for ourselves Recite the nightly news Repeat the nightly news Repeat the nightly news Repeat the nightly news