The Great Deception

Van Morrison

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1. Did you ever hear a-bout The Great De-ception?
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   Well, the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run.
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   Have you ever been down to Love City?
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   Where they rip you off with a smile, and it don't take a gun.

2. Don't it hurt so bad in Love city?
   Don't it make you not want to bother at all?
   And don't they look so self righteous,
   When they pin you up a-gainst the wall?

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R1: Did you ever, ever see the people,
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    With the tear drops in their eyes?
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    I just can't stand it, stand it no how,
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    Living in this world of lies.

3. Did you ever hear a-bout the Rock and Roll singers?
   Got three or four Cadil-lacs.
   Saying power to the people, dance to the music;
   Wants you to pat him on the back.

4. Have you ever heard a-bout the great Rembrandt?
   Have you ever heard a-bout how he could paint?
   And he didn't have e-nough money for his brushes;
   And they thought it was rather quaint.

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R2: But you know it's no use re-peating,
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    And you know it's no use to think about it.
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    'Cos when you stop to think a-bout it; you don't need it.

5. Have you ever heard a-bout the great, Hollywood motion picture actor,
   Who knew more than they did?
   And the newspapers didn't cover the story;
   Just decided to keep it hid.

6. Somebody started saying it was an inside job;
   Whatever happened to him?
   Last time they saw him, down on the bow'ry;
   With his lip hanging off an old rusty bottle of gin.

7. Have you ever heard a-bout the so-called Hippies?
   Down on the far side of the tracks.
   They take the eyeballs straight out of your head,
   Say son, kid, do you want your eyeballs back?

R3: Did you ever, ever see...

8. Did you ever hear a-bout The Great De-ception?
   Well, the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run.
   Have you ever been down to Love City?
   Where they rip you off with a smile, and it don't take a gun.

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   Have you ever heard about...
   The Great Deception.