Bait and Switch

The devil done put a new face on an old sales technique It's brash, it's bold It's tricky sweet But it tastes sour, this maggot treat He swapped the fresh for the spoiled meat Had to bait the trap good, hide the kill switch under the hood Alternative facts is the new money wood This new source of energy lies beneath methane colored skies Smells kinda putrefied, smells like somebody died Fracked up those new found lies Alternative facts is the new dung polluting the skies But you still gotta sell it to the people as sweet-smelling pecan pies You gotta know how to bait the trap good, hide the kill switch under the hood Alternative facts is the new money wood Turning truth into lies requires filthy lucre ... this has always been understood Bait and switch, don't give 'em what they agreed to get Spoiler alert: this truth-teller is gonna snitch Those alternative facts being piped into your homes is gonna make somebody filthy rich Bait and switch, don't give 'em what they agreed to get Give 'em the old landfill reservation trick; so when you enter your latrine, you better watch where you sit Check the fine print on the sales agreement, you'll find you bought yourself a pile of excrement Historical footnote: The Australian government removed Aborigines, the first natives, from their ancestral lands that was rich w/natural resources such as gold, silver and oil. They placed them in Central Australia on barren ground reservations atop toxic landfills. The American government did similar treatment to Native Americans.