State Of The Union

[ti:State Of The Union] [ar:David Ford] [al:Body Of War: Songs That Inspired An Iraq War Veteran] [by:季风网-【http://www.ip21.cn】] [offset:0] 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 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 'cause the righteous are leaving 'Cause 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 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 it's a shame it's a shame Watch your step by the crowd of fanatics While they kill in the name Of applied mathematics Hate the system even though you invented it Go kill your brothers and claim self defence of it Picking up all the secrets and tricks to being One of the guys whom the shit never sticks to Take you seats for the final calamity Don't you look serious hell What can the matter be Another day and the rot's getting faster And all the machines started killing the 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 it's a shame It's a shame it's a shame it's