| I got me a job on the local paper | |
| Everybody there thinks I'm nice | |
| But they'd better look twice | |
| `Cos it isn't me | |
| I wanna be | |
| Headline hustler | |
| Scandal maker | |
| Headline hustler | |
| Money taker | |
| You keep writing me letters | |
| But I haven't got time | |
| I'm busy looking at photographs | |
| But they'd better not be from the BBC | |
| You're gonna hear from me | |
| Headline hustler | |
| Scandal maker | |
| Headline hustler | |
| Money taker | |
| Better not turn around | |
| I'll stab you in the back | |
| And you don't know what I'm hiding | |
| Under my plastic mac, under my plastic mac | |
| I got a very good friend in the CIA | |
| And he says that he never takes bribes | |
| But he's telling lies | |
| `Cos he's into me | |
| He knows I wanna be | |
| Headline hustler | |
| Scandal maker | |
| Headline hustler | |
| Money taker | |
| If your brother's wearing dresses | |
| And your neighbour's swapped his wife | |
| Well, I'm gonna make the headlines | |
| With your private life | |
| With your other wife | |
| Headline hustler | |
| Scandal maker | |
| Headline hustler | |
| Money taker | |
| Headline hustler | |
| Scandal maker | |
| Headline hustler | |
| Money taker |