Tabloid Junkie

by Michael Jackson

From the album: HIStory: Past, Present and Future - Book I

Track 26 of 30 on HIStory: Past, Present and Future - Book I (1995).

Duration: 4:32

HIStory: Past, Present and Future - Book I cover art

Lyrics for Tabloid Junkie

In the news today, from the strange and weird fact file, Singer Michael Jackson sleeps in an oxygen chamber, The singer says that the hyperbaric chamber has the benefit of reversing The aging process... Speculate to break the one you hate Circulate the lie you confiscate Assassinate and mutilate As the hounding media in hysteria Who's the next for you to resurrect JFK exposed the CIA Truth be told the grassy knoll As the blackmail story in all your glory It's slander You say it's not a sword But with your pen you torture men You'd crucify the Lord And you don't have to read it, read it And you don't have to eat it, eat it To buy it is to feed it, feed it So why do we keep foolin' ourselves Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual Though everybody wants to read all about it Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual, actual They say he's homosexual In the hood Frame him if you could Shoot to kill To blame him if you will If he dies sympathize Such false witnesses Damn self righteousness In the black Stab me in the back In the face To lie and shame the race Heroine and Marilyn As the headline stories of All your glory It's slander With the words you use You're a parasite in black and white Do anything for news And you don't go and buy it, buy it And they won't glorify it, 'fy it To read it sanctifies it, 'fies it Then why do we keep foolin' ourselves Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual Everybody wants to read all about it Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual See, but everybody wants to believe all about it Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual See, but everybody wants to believe all about it Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual, actual She's blonde and she's bisexual Scandal With the words you use You're a parasite in black and white Do anything for news And you don't go and buy it, buy it And they won't glorify it, 'fy it To read it sanctifies it, 'fies it Why do we keep foolin' ourselves Slander You say it's not a sin But with your pen you torture men Then why do we keep foolin' ourselves Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual Though everybody wants to read all about it Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual See, but everybody wants to read all about it Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual Just because you read it in a magazine Or see it on the TV screen Don't make it factual, actual You're so damn disrespectable

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More from HIStory: Past, Present and Future - Book I

  1. Billie Jean
  2. The Way You Make Me Feel
  3. Black Or White
  4. Rock With You
  5. She's Out Of My Life
  6. Bad
  7. I Just Can't Stop Loving You
  8. Man In The Mirror
  9. Thriller
  10. Beat It
  11. The Girl Is Mine
  12. Remember The Time
  13. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
  14. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
  15. Heal The World
  16. Scream
  17. They Don't Care About Us
  18. Stranger In Moscow
  19. This Time Around
  20. Earth Song
  21. D.S.
  22. Money
  23. Come Together
  24. You Are Not Alone
  25. Childhood (Theme From "Free Willy 2")
  26. Tabloid Junkie
  27. 2 Bad
  28. HIStory
  29. Little Susie
  30. Smile