Manufacture of consent   Turn your fiction into fact   The story's more important   Than the truth      Selective information sold   Won't tell us what we should know   The printed word is set   With biased hands      There it is in black and white      What you can't see and don't hear   What you don't know hurts you   What is not said but instead   What you don't know hurts you      And war looks like a TV game   Entertaining frame by frame   But do we ever really   Know the score?      Cover up and change the view   Suggest the side that we should choose   On the air   Your own official truth      There it is on satellite      What you can't see and don't hear   What you don't know hurts you   What is not said but instead   What you don't know hurts you      What you're not told but are sold   What you don't know hurts you   What is not shown won't be known   What you don't know hurts you      What you see   What you hear   What you read      The safety of complacency   Imagination, scarcity   The camera is asleep on my TV      Opinions formed from what I'm fed   From subtitles that I've read   I read the words   But not between the lines      Hear it on the air      What you can't see and don't hear   What you don't know hurts you   What is not said but instead   What you don't know hurts you      What you're not told but are sold   What you don't know hurts you   What is not shown won't be known   What you don't know hurts you