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State Of The Union
David Ford

Sweet dreams, all met with derision

This train, it was armed for collision

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame


Clap your hands in the sparkle and glitter

Shake your heads at the twisted and bitter

Oh, they don't know how lucky they are


Foot down for the alienation

Look on as your love, it gets lost in translation

To a language that nobody understands


But there are smiles as they erode and corrupt you

Of the great expectations you could never live up to

We are lost, we are lost, we are lost


Get your coat, because the righteous are leaving

Because they can't work out what the hell to believe in

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame


No abandon, no heartfelt desire

No love could be worth getting fired

For real, it's surreal, it's so real


So paint over the cracks and then cover

What you thought was the worst-ever pain with another

And the first one, it always comes free


How they love you, so cold and so vicious

With friends like these, well, who needs politicians

The first one, it always comes free

They tell you heroin takes like ice cream


Clever men know all that and all this

And they will talk and they will talk and they don't fucking listen

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame


It's no life, but God, it's a living

Come on, Jesus Christ, come back, all is forgiven

We are lost, we are lost, we are lost


Have no fear of the state of the nation

Let the facts have no bearing on public relations

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame


What a model of Christian behaviour

Preach on with the message of Go fuck thy neighbour

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame

A shame, it's a shame


Watch your step by the crowd of fanatics

While they kill in the name of applied mathematics

And you hate the system even though you invented it

Go kill your brothers and claim self defense of it

Picking up all the secrets and the tricks to being

One of the guys whom the shit never sticks to

Take your seats for the final calamity

Don't you look so serious, hell, what can the matter be?

Another day and the rot's getting faster

And all the machines started killing their master

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame


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