Slaid Cleaves - Beautiful Thing lyrics
[Slaid Cleaves - Beautiful Thing lyrics]
Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore
Party hacks and swift-boatin'
Talk-show whores
Look at all the lies it takes
The job of making kings
You can own the truth
You just gotta conceive it
Put it on the television screen
They'll believe it it's a beautiful thing
We wonder how our leaders
Could ever deceive us
While the profiteers count their
Cash and praise Jesus
The press sings another chorus
Of "Let Freedom Ring"
We send our boys away to come home in parts
Believe the lies with all our hearts
It's a beautiful thing
Dissention is a song only
Fools and traitors sing
Just look at all the benefit's
Your global economy brings
Today we sing the gilded age's song
The 20th century's dead and gone
It's a beautiful thing
I live in a land of hope and betrayal
I get up each morning, try to tell the tale
And so until my dying day
Whatever fate may bring
A dark age looms, there's evil at hand
Somehow I still believe in
The goodness of man it's a beautiful thing
Party hacks and swift-boatin'
Talk-show whores
Look at all the lies it takes
The job of making kings
You can own the truth
You just gotta conceive it
Put it on the television screen
They'll believe it it's a beautiful thing
We wonder how our leaders
Could ever deceive us
While the profiteers count their
Cash and praise Jesus
The press sings another chorus
Of "Let Freedom Ring"
We send our boys away to come home in parts
Believe the lies with all our hearts
It's a beautiful thing
Dissention is a song only
Fools and traitors sing
Just look at all the benefit's
Your global economy brings
Today we sing the gilded age's song
The 20th century's dead and gone
It's a beautiful thing
I live in a land of hope and betrayal
I get up each morning, try to tell the tale
And so until my dying day
Whatever fate may bring
A dark age looms, there's evil at hand
Somehow I still believe in
The goodness of man it's a beautiful thing