Welcome to the Holy City; the silver screen 欢迎来到圣城;银幕

Built with a lens and a low self esteem 内置了镜头和低自尊

A teenager's plea for meaning and means 一个少年的恳求意义和途径

We're selling the news 我们卖的消息

   

See, opinions are easier to swallow than facts 见，意见更容易吞下比事实

The greys instead of the whites and the blacks 的灰色，而不是白人和黑人

If you shoot it too straight it won't come back 如果你拍它太直也不会回来

We're selling the news 我们卖的消息

   

See, money speaks volumes louder than words 你看，钱意味深长胜于字

And virtues with wings, maybe not quite at first 和美德的翅膀，可能不太起初

But salaries are paid by the ads not the verbs 但工资是由广告不是动词支付

We're selling the news 我们卖的消息

   

See, all men are equal; all is for sale 你看，所有的人都是平等的;所有转让

A powerful dog has been chasing his tail 一个强大的狗一直追着自己的尾巴

The lowest common denominator prevails 最小公分母为准

We're selling the news 我们卖的消息

   

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe 我想相信你，我想相信

But everything is in-between 但一切都在两者之间

The fact is fiction, the fact is fiction 事实是虚构的，但事实是虚构

   

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe 我想相信你，我想相信

But everything is in-between 但一切都在两者之间

The fact is fiction 事实是虚构

Suspicion is the new religion 怀疑是新宗教

   

America listens as the story is told 美国听的故事是说，

With the eye on the truth as the story unfolds 随着真相的眼睛展露

But the ratings determine which story was sold 但收视率决定哪些故事被出售

We're selling the news 我们卖的消息

   

Begging the question, mongering fears 乞讨的问题，散播恐惧

Stroking the eyes and tickling ears 抚摸着眼睛和耳朵发痒

The truth is seldom just as it appears 事实是，很少仅仅因为它出现

We're selling the news 我们卖的消息

   

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe 我想相信你，我想相信

But everything is in-between 但一切都在两者之间

The fact is fiction, the fact is fiction 事实是虚构的，但事实是虚构

   

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe 我想相信你，我想相信

But everything is in-between 但一切都在两者之间

The fact is fiction, the fact is fiction 事实是虚构的，但事实是虚构

   

I can see your talking heads 我可以看到你的名嘴

On the television set 在电视机

On the Internet they said 在互联网上，他们说：

The fact is fiction 事实是虚构

   

Suspicion is the new religion 怀疑是新宗教

   

Substance, oh, substance, where have you been? 物质，哦，物质，你去哪里了？

You've been replaced by the masters of spin 你已经取代了旋转的主人

Who make good looking books and write history in 谁使好看的书，在写历史

We're selling the news 我们卖的消息

   

The lines start to blur; I get so confused 该行开始变得模糊;我是那么的迷茫

I get shiny new models mixed up with the blues 我得到闪闪发光的新车型混在一起蓝调

I get binary code mixed up with abuse 我得到的二进制代码混在一起滥用

The facts are simply one option to choose 事实很简单的一个选项来选择

   

When nothing is sacred, there's nothing to lose 没事的时候是神圣的，有什么可失去的

When nothing is sacred, all is consumed 当没有什么是神圣的，所有的被消耗

We're still on the air, it must be the truth 我们还在空中，就一定是真相

We're selling the news 我们卖的消息

   

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe 我想相信你，我想相信

But everything is in-between 但一切都在两者之间

The fact is fiction, the fact is fiction 事实是虚构的，但事实是虚构

   

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe 我想相信你，我想相信

But everything is in-between 但一切都在两者之间

The fact is fiction, the fact is fiction 事实是虚构的，但事实是虚构

   

I wanna believe you, I wanna believe 我想相信你，我想相信

But everything I see is greed 但一切，我看到的是贪婪

The fact is fiction 事实是虚构

   

Suspicion is the new religion 怀疑是新宗教