Body of War Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran movie - State Of The Union lyrics

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Song by David Ford<br /><br>

Sweet dreams, all met with derision <br>

This train, it was armed for collision <br>

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame <br>

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Clap your hands in the sparkle and glitter <br>

Shake your heads at the twisted and bitter <br>

Oh, they don't know how lucky they are <br>

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Foot down for the alienation <br>

Look on as your love, it gets lost in translation <br>

To a language that nobody understands <br>

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But there are smiles as they erode and corrupt you <br>

Of the great expectations you could never live up to <br>

We are lost, we are lost, we are lost <br>

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Get you coat, because the righteous are leaving <br>

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

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame <br>

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No abandon, no heartfelt desire <br>

No love could be worth getting fired <br>

For real, it's surreal, it's so real <br>

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So paint over the cracks and then cover <br>

What you thought was the worst-ever pain with another <br>

And the first one, it always comes free <br>

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How they love you, so cold and so vicious <br>

With friends like these, well, who needs politicians <br>

The first one, it always comes free <br>

They tell you heroin takes like ice cream <br>

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Clever men know all that and all this <br>

And they will talk and they will talk and they don't fucking listen <br>

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame <br>

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It's no life, but God, it's a living <br>

Come on, Jesus Christ, come back, all is forgiven <br>

We are lost, we are lost, we are lost <br>

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Have no fear of the state of the nation <br>

Let the facts have no bearing on public relations <br>

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame <br>

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What a model of Christian behaviour <br>

Preach on with the message of "Go fuck thy neighbour" <br>

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame <br>

A shame, it's a shame <br>

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Watch your step by the crowd of fanatics <br>

While they kill in the name of applied mathematics <br>

And you hate the system even though you invented it <br>

Go kill your brothers and claim self defense of it <br>

Picking up all the secrets and the tricks to being <br>

One of the guys whom the shit never sticks to <br>

Take your seats for the final calamity <br>

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

Another day and the rot's getting faster <br>

And all the machines started killing their master <br>

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame <br>

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame <br>

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame <br>

It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame<br>

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