Fact And Fiction
TV is switched on
the screen reveal a spokesperson
adverts, politics, editing the real
cheap words, money talks
naming itself to be the key
to Utopia, Cornucopia
to a better world you go buy and buy

and if you listen carefully
you can hear the bacon fly
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!

history shows that policy demands weapons
selfish desires simply lead to pain
the chit-chat continues
a big pretence that divides
into power blocks
where the orthodox
have a propaganda war to fight

and if you're looking closely
you can see that black is white
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!

if the "unthinkable" should happen
and you hear the sirens call
well you can always find some shelter
behind a door against the wall
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!
don't make me laugh!

Notes
Lyrics written by Geoff Mann.
Released on the Fact And Fiction album;
recorded at Revolution Studios in 1982. On the album it is connected with the following song, The Poet
Sniffs A Flower. It was played live this way most of the times (when Geoff used the instrumental
to get dressed for Sequences). Around the time of the album release, the songs were played
separately a few times, and a while after Andy Sears joined the band, the songs were split again.
A live version was released officially on the
Live And Let Live album, recorded
in November 1983.