A rumor or rumour (see spelling differences) is often viewed as "an unverified account or explanation of events circulating from person to person and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in public concern" (33) However, a review of the research on rumor conducted by Pendleton in 1998 found that research across sociology, psychology, and communication studies had widely varying definitions of rumor.
Thus, rumor is a concept that lacks a particular definition in the social sciences. But most theories agree that rumor involves some kind of a statement whose veracity is not quickly or ever confirmed. In addition, some scholars have identified rumor as a subset of propaganda, the latter another notoriously difficult concept to define. A pioneer of propaganda studies, Harold Lasswell defined propaganda in 1927 as referring "solely to the control of opinion by significant symbols, or, to speak more concretely and less accurately, by stories, rumors, reports, pictures, and other forms of social communication" (1927:9).
I listen to rumours
Stone cold and bleeding
They burn my heart away
Left me alone and afraid
Words seem to leave me
Just when I needed them
Just like I need you
Like I'm supposed to do
They say:
Love is deceiving
She won't stay forever
Love is deceiving
Is all that she knows
Love is deceiving
She'll leave you forever
Love is deceiving
She comes and she goes
I wonder
I wonder
I listen to rumours
Listen to everyone
Everyone but you
And now it's all too late
This is the morning
When our feelings rise together with the sun
There are the feelings that are yet to be awoken
How many wishes fade to nothing
Once they face reality?
How many wishes turn to grief?
How many wishes going on and on and on and on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Ouh, hey, hey
I bless the sunshine
With my love-disease and all my knees and more
I bless the sunshine and no shadows haunt my walls
Blue is a state of mind
Blue makes you colourblind
Beware of it, beware of it
You talk about a rumour
You talk about dead-end streets
About this rumour
Its not the way to think
Talk about a rumour
Then talk about a higher love
You know it won't
It won't satisfy my needs
It won't satisfy my needs
Say ne, ne, ne, ne, ne, ne, ne
Talk about a rumour
No one expected this
That I should falter in a maudlin sky
No one expected this
But I misjudged and aimed to high
Blue is a sacred place
Where shattered dreams find shelter, well
Blue is a state of mind
Blue makes you colour-blind
You talk about a rumour
You talk about dead-end streets
About this rumour
It's God in me
So, if you talk about a rumour
Then talk about a higher love
You talk about a rumour
When all it takes is simple love
And love and love and love and love
Simple love
And love and love and love and love
You're too high
Blue makes you colour-blind, yeah
We were going through the motions
You know I need you tonight
Yesterday is over
I got the red eyes
And you are my sight
Hi hi give me a chance
Hi hi don't you know
Hi hi show me a picture
You got the word and you won't let go
Chorus
Rumour it's a rumour
Don't believe a story every time its told
Rumour it's a rumour
All that glitters sure ain't gold
Got to be devotion
You know you're making me cry
Day is just beginning here comes the sun
You took my hand now you're waving goodbye
Give me a sign
All these words are just so unkind
Give me a second chance
Build it up this long romance
Hi hi give me a chance
Hi hi don't you know
Hi hi I heard a whisper
You got the word and you won't let go
Rumour
Rumour
All that glitters sure ain't gold
Shame on you today
For taking what I say
And turning it into a lie
He told her and said
"I'll tell you what he did"
You think I care
I don't know why
Guilty voices and bad choices make or break you if they hate you
Don't need a reason don't need a feeling
Cold discussions, conversations
Fill this room right up to the ceiling
With your rumour
People talk aloud
Passing through the crowd
Talk, talk, talk is what you do
Carry on that way
I don't care what you say
Cos life is short and that's a truth
Guilty voices and bad choices make or break you if they hate you
Don't need a reason don't need a feeling
Cold discussions, conversations
Fill this room right up to the ceiling
With your rumour
Guilty voices and bad choices make or break you if they hate you
Don't need a reason don't need a feeling
Cold discussions, conversations
Fill this room right up to the ceiling
With your rumour [x2]
Don't need a reason don't need a feeling
Cold discussions, conversations
Fill this room right up to the ceiling
With your rumour
It's only a deception that man can fly
travelling round the world - flying to the universe
are all bad lies
The only truth is hidden
It's only a contention that sky is wide
Earth's said to be a ball - revolved by heavy tin-
machines
in dizzy heights
Dare I know these secrets?
It's only a rumour
No sun does exist
It's maybe a rumour that the earth turns
It's only a contention that man flew to the moon
counterfeit in studios - by pasteboard
population has been fooled
This knowledge is forbidden