Beautiful Thing

	  		



Intro: C 

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Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore 
Am 
Party hacks and swift-boating talk-show whores 
F                                                C 
Look at all the lies it takes, the job of making kings 
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You can own the truth, you just gotta conceive it 
       Am 
Put it on the television screens, they'll believe it 
       Dm7               F 
It's a beautiful thing 
                   C 
It's a beautiful thing 


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We wonder how our leaders could ever deceive us 
          Am 
While the profiteers count their cash and praise Jesus 
    F                                        C 
The press sings another Chorus, “Let Freedom Ring” 
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We send our boys away to come home in parts 
  Am 
Believe the lies with all our hearts 
       Dm7               F 
It's a beautiful thing 
                   C 
It's a beautiful thing 


Bridge: 
   F                                         C 
Dissension is a song only fools and traitors sing 
     F                                            G 
Just look at all the benefits that global economy brings 
  C                                 ~ ~ 
Today we sing the gilded age's song 
    Am 
The 20th century's dead and gone 
       Dm7               F 
It's a beautiful thing 
                   C 
It's a beautiful thing 


Instrumental: C    Am    F    C       Am    Dm7  F  C 


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I live in a land of hope and betrayal 
  Am 
I get up each morning and try to tell the tale 
    F                                         C 
And so, until my dying day, whatever fate may bring 
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A dark age looms, there's evil at hand 
    Am 
Somehow I still believe in the goodness of man 
       Dm7               F 
It's a beautiful thing 
                   C 
It's a beautiful thing 
       Dm7               F 
It's a beautiful thing 
                   C 
It's a beautiful thing