Beautiful Thing - Slaid Cleaves

Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore

Party hacks and swift boating 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

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

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

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

It's a beautiful thing