Beautiful Thing Lyrics - Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away - Slaid Cleaves

Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore 

Party hacks and swift-boatin' 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 

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