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· Jun 16, 2026
Morning News Ballad
The Same Old Fear
A Ballad of the Daily News
The Same Old Fear
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A Ballad of the Daily News
0:00
Two old men on a floodlit stage
0:03
Turning history's next new page
0:07
One with a whisper, one with a roar
0:10
Fighting a battle they've fought before
0:14
The nation watches on a silver screen
0:18
Caught in the somewhere that's in between
0:21
They talk of futures that they will build
0:25
On a foundation cracked and filled
0:29
Oh, the newsman cries and the ink runs black
0:32
On a story that we've seen and will see back
0:36
It's a different name and a different year
0:40
But the same old hope and the same old fear
0:43
The wheel of headlines just keeps on turning
0:47
Another lesson we're not quite learning
0:51
Down the marble halls where the echoes sleep
0:54
Nine robed figures a secret keep
0:58
They weigh the balance of wrong and right
1:02
And send their words out into the light
1:05
A gavel falls, a decision's made
1:09
A path is chosen, a future laid
1:13
And folks in town from the coast to coast
1:16
Debate the freedom they've won or lost
1:20
Oh, the newsman cries and the ink runs black
1:23
On a story that we've seen and will see back
1:27
It's a different name and a different year
1:31
But the same old hope and the same old fear
1:34
The wheel of headlines just keeps on turning
1:38
Another lesson we're not quite learning
1:42
But the sun don't care for a written law
1:45
Or the brittle words from a leader's jaw
1:49
The mercury climbs, the river runs low
1:53
It's the oldest story that we all know
1:56
The asphalt melts and the cicadas drone
2:00
A power greater than any throne
2:04
Oh, the newsman cries and the ink runs black
2:07
On a story that we've seen and will see back
2:11
It's a different name and a different year
2:15
But the same old hope and the same old fear
2:18
The wheel of headlines just keeps on turning
2:22
Another lesson we're not quite learning
