They will buy the video And circulate the lies They will buy the pictures Knowing they're not right Manipulate the image To sell the magazines They will do the edit And make it all obscene Smearing your opponents Tell some dirty lies Plant some crucial evidence Headline it tonight Systematic madness - systematic madness Systematic madness - madness rules the world Systematic madness - systematic madness Systematic madness - madness fools the world They will brief the president On weapons and intrigue And call for mass deployment A country on its knees They strangle all the media Of what they have to know It's just a few who pull the strings They direct the show