| Song | News Of The World |
| Artist | The Wildhearts |
| Album | Rock City Vs The Wildhearts |
| here's the eighth of the seven wonders, here's the (pay back) without a crime | |
| here's to all the baby-shit so major at the time | |
| from the last of the great pretenders to the new television age | |
| and the few who still remember passion over rage | |
| we changed, we didn't even try | |
| we opened up our mouths (for) telling all those lies to ourselves | |
| and everybody helps | |
| CHORUS: | |
| 'cos we're just wanters not needers, hypocrites and cheaters, this is the news of the world | |
| pseudo-heroes masturbating our egos, this is the news of the world | |
| the news of the world... | |
| I could hide in the foreign legion, I could live in the south of France | |
| I could pick a thousand reasons, given half the chance | |
| but the pricks are the whole world over, every sex, every colour of skin | |
| maybe we're just too far gone to shake the mess we're in | |
| we changed, we didn't even try | |
| we opened up our mouths for telling all those lies to ourselves | |
| and everybody helps | |
| CHORUS | |
| take me far away from it all, the news of the world | |
| (what's next?) I got my bills to pay | |
| (what's next?) I need a holiday | |
| (what's next?) I got police upon my back | |
| (what's next?) internal politics | |
| (what's next?) some humans make me sick | |
| the fakes the judges liars greed | |
| the laws that judge the life I lead, the fucked up shit that I don't need | |
| wanters(x4) | |
| CHORUS | |
| the news of the world(x4) | |
| {plus odd stuff and various laughter…} |
| here' s the eighth of the seven wonders, here' s the pay back without a crime | |
| here' s to all the babyshit so major at the time | |
| from the last of the great pretenders to the new television age | |
| and the few who still remember passion over rage | |
| we changed, we didn' t even try | |
| we opened up our mouths for telling all those lies to ourselves | |
| and everybody helps | |
| CHORUS: | |
| ' cos we' re just wanters not needers, hypocrites and cheaters, this is the news of the world | |
| pseudoheroes masturbating our egos, this is the news of the world | |
| the news of the world... | |
| I could hide in the foreign legion, I could live in the south of France | |
| I could pick a thousand reasons, given half the chance | |
| but the pricks are the whole world over, every sex, every colour of skin | |
| maybe we' re just too far gone to shake the mess we' re in | |
| we changed, we didn' t even try | |
| we opened up our mouths for telling all those lies to ourselves | |
| and everybody helps | |
| CHORUS | |
| take me far away from it all, the news of the world | |
| what' s next? I got my bills to pay | |
| what' s next? I need a holiday | |
| what' s next? I got police upon my back | |
| what' s next? internal politics | |
| what' s next? some humans make me sick | |
| the fakes the judges liars greed | |
| the laws that judge the life I lead, the fucked up shit that I don' t need | |
| wanters x4 | |
| CHORUS | |
| the news of the world x4 | |
| plus odd stuff and various laughter |