Slaid Cleaves - Beautiful Thing lyrics

Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore Party hacks and swift-boatin' talk-show who*es 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 benefits 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