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