David Ford - State of the Union lyrics

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 h**n takes like ice cream Clever men know all that and all this And they will talk and they talk and they don't f**ing 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 f** 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 k** in the name of applied mathematics Hate the system even though you invented it Go k** your brothers and claim self defence of it Picking up all the secrets and tricks to being One of the guys whom the sh** 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 k**ing the master It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame, it's a shame