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