SHAYNE: Brutal! was the only word that could ever describe "truth...". It was my heaviest tune for MW. Some more death metal orientated riffs but still thrashing like MW. I sent the first demo to morbid and within 20mins he had a set of lyrics for me. The song never had a name until morbid laid down the vocals and said oh yeah song 16 is called truth is a lie… the lyrics ring in my head every time I listen to it. The song just came together so well it’s a shame we never used it.

MORBID: I don't have a great deal to say about this. It's more anti-media stuff... in a way.
My other pet theme at the time was hate. Wow, what a topic! Hate. I had alot of it back then. So I'd written a few songs about hate, and decided that I'd get back to the media stuff with this one. While the other songs were somewhat topical, at least in the way that I was inspired by actual happenings, this one was just a rather generic "isn't the media/the government/the court system" evil.
While the song mostly focused on the justice system, it wasn't really intended. It just sort of happened that way, which is why I said earlier it was anti-media "in a way". I really wanted to say more about how the buying of the court was going on, but the media wasn't presenting it because they were being paid off to. But like I also said, this wasn't inspired by anything other than I wanted to write a song that was, as I called it, "socially aware". So I wrote some lyrics that had nothing to do with anything. In fact, I think I had almost given up on following the news at that point.
The lyric line "And thats the way truth and justice died/Met with a thunderous applause" was very much inspired by a line from Revenge of the Sith. I'd been to see it at the movies, liked the line, couldn't remember it properly and wrote this into the song. That's why it doesn't seem to fit properly. Well, I think so, anyway.
You may notice after reading this and the entry for MurderWorld (the song) that I use lines (or title, in the case of MW) from various forms of media. I like doing throwaway references to things that I'm into at the time. Backstab (from the Ashes album) uses a catchphrase from the WWE. So much for not having much to say...