Other People's Lives Lyrics - Other People's Lives - Ray Davies

Can't believe what I just read, gossip on the Internet 

Now the tabloids have the news 

Cross my heart, it just ain't true 

I never thought it of you 

Name, names and every line 

Is feeding their suspicious minds 

I'm not bitter or angry, I'm only feeling sympathy 

You really found the time 

To feed the reporter with your views 

See the reporter, break the news 

Read the reporter, join the queue 

Spread the news, scandalize 

Words cut like a thousand knives 

Take the cash, bag the prize 

For playing games with other people's lives 

See the reporter, break the news 

Read the reporter, join the queue 

Eat it up, take a bite, feed the reader's appetite 

They'll swallow anything you write 

As long as it's in black and white 

And full of titillation 

I can't believe what I just read 

Excuse me, I just vomited 

Tell your story, it's your call 

So autobiographical but oh, so trivial 

Feed the reporter 

They put it on the Internet 

To help improve the circulation 

They'll pepper it with lies 

It's only other people's lives 

Feed the reporter 

Read the reporter 

Politicians dressed in drag 

Careers stopped with a quick back stab 

While anonymous informer flees 

And leaves us with our fantasy and erotic visions 

Who did what, when, to whom 

In the dominatrix room? 

Tabloids daily titillate 

Each sordid tale reverberates 

All across the nation 

(What can I say?) 

Feed the reporter 

(It's a vendetta) 

Read the reporter 

([Incomprehensible]) 

A rumor then a vicious phrase 

A poison pen can wreck your day 

And weather words that crucify 

As tabloid judges sharpen up their knives 

Read the reporter, black and white 

See the reporter victimize 

See a poor sucker crucified 

To stop the truth, to tell your lies 

Betray your friends and get the prize 

The dagger's in, now twist the knife 

The gutter's full of other people's lives