Beautiful Thing-Slaid Cleaves

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[ar:Slaid Cleaves]
[al:Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away]
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[00:00.00]Beautiful Thing - Slaid Cleaves
[00:08.84]Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore
[00:12.50]Party hacks and swift boating talk show whores
[00:16.54]Look at all the lies it takes the job of making kings
[00:23.85]You can own the truth you just gotta conceive it
[00:28.15]Put it on the television screen they'll believe it
[00:32.12]It's a beautiful thing
[00:35.02]It's a beautiful thing
[00:44.56]We wonder how our leaders could ever deceive us
[00:48.08]While the profiteers count their cash and praise Jesus
[00:52.41]The press sings another chorus of let freedom ring
[01:00.43]We send our boys away to come home in parts
[01:04.44]Believe the lies with all our hearts
[01:08.07]It's a beautiful thing
[01:11.05]It's a beautiful thing
[01:16.53]Dissention is a song only fools and traitors sing
[01:24.48]Just look at all the benefits your global economy brings
[01:32.49]Today we sing the gilded age's song
[01:36.39]The 20th century's dead and gone
[01:39.95]It's a beautiful thing
[01:43.20]It's a beautiful thing
[02:25.06]I live in a land of hope and betrayal
[02:29.02]I get up each morning try to tell the tale
[02:32.79]And so until my dying day whatever fate may bring
[02:41.08]A dark age looms there's evil at hand
[02:44.94]Somehow I still believe in the goodness of man
[02:49.24]It's a beautiful thing
[02:51.74]It's a beautiful thing