Beautiful Thing-Slaid Cleaves

[ti:Beautiful Thing] [ar:Slaid Cleaves] [al:Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Beautiful Thing - Slaid Cleaves [00:08.84]Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore [00:11.01] [00:12.50]Party hacks and swift boating talk show whores [00:15.93] [00:16.54]Look at all the lies it takes the job of making kings [00:21.42] [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 [00:31.54] [00:32.12]It's a beautiful thing [00:33.21] [00:35.02]It's a beautiful thing [00:36.05] [00:44.56]We wonder how our leaders could ever deceive us [00:47.45] [00:48.08]While the profiteers count their cash and praise Jesus [00:51.49] [00:52.41]The press sings another chorus of let freedom ring [00:56.90] [01:00.43]We send our boys away to come home in parts [01:03.65] [01:04.44]Believe the lies with all our hearts [01:07.09] [01:08.07]It's a beautiful thing [01:09.48] [01:11.05]It's a beautiful thing [01:12.05] [01:16.53]Dissention is a song only fools and traitors sing [01:20.97] [01:24.48]Just look at all the benefits your global economy brings [01:28.66] [01:32.49]Today we sing the gilded age's song [01:35.62] [01:36.39]The 20th century's dead and gone [01:39.95]It's a beautiful thing [01:41.94] [01:43.20]It's a beautiful thing [01:44.85] [02:25.06]I live in a land of hope and betrayal [02:28.20] [02:29.02]I get up each morning try to tell the tale [02:32.15] [02:32.79]And so until my dying day whatever fate may bring [02:37.77] [02:41.08]A dark age looms there's evil at hand [02:44.94]Somehow I still believe in the goodness of man [02:48.54] [02:49.24]It's a beautiful thing [02:50.44] [02:51.74]It's a beautiful thing