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The Public Have a Right To Know (EP version)

from Allergic To Music by Alistair J. Pearson

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A song I wrote when I realised that very few of the papers print real news. I don't care if a celebrity is pregnant. I care if we have discovered alien life or nuclear fusion or light speed travel or teleportation or lightsabres or hangover-free gin.

lyrics

Science built a ladder to the moon
And, even though
we're leaving tomorrow
You won't read it in the news
They'd much rather tell you
a rockstar had a kid
With a girl that wasn't his

It's the same news every day
The same news every day
All the fashion
All the gossip
All of the cliches
And it's always been this way
It's the same news every day
The same news every day

Plastered over the front page
A football player tried to
Rape a girl in a hotel and
He makes an obscene wage so
They air her dirty laundry
In the name of justice
Making her life hell
And hidden on page 9
A 5 line story
'Bout a doctor who saves lives

And it's the same news every day
The same news every day
All the fashion
All the gossip
All of the cliches
And it's always been this way
It's the same news every day
The same news every day

I had to turn my back on this
Who cares if some 19 year old
exposes her chest
So now I read New Scientist
Celebrity cannot compete
With scientific discoveries
So the tabloids have to go
They fill your head with crap
Because the public have
a right to know...

And it's the same news every day
The same news every day
All the fashion
All the gossip
All of the cliches
And it's always been this way
It's the same news every day
The same news every day

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from Allergic To Music, released January 23, 2014

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Alistair J. Pearson Doncaster, UK

Following a bilateral lung transplant in 2010, I started making loads of noise. The only way you will be able to find out what I do is to listen to my songs. You might even like it. My mum does.

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