Intro:
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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.
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Don't it hurt so bad in Love city?
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Don't it make you not want to bother at all?
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And don't they look so self righteous,
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When they pin you up a-gainst the wall?
Chorus 1:
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Did you ever, ever see the people,
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With the tear drops in their eyes?
E D
I just can't stand it, stand it no how,
C#m A (n.D)
Living in this world of lies.
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Did you ever hear a-bout the Rock and Roll singers?
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Got three or four Cadil-lacs.
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Saying power to the people, dance to the music;
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Wants you to pat him on the back.
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Have you ever heard a-bout the great Rembrandt?
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Have you ever heard a-bout how he could paint?
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And he didn't have e-nough money for his brushes;
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And they thought it was rather quaint.
Chorus 2:
E D
But you know it's no use re-peating,
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And you know it's no use to think about it.
E D A (n.D)
'Cos when you stop to think a-bout it; you don't need it.
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Have you ever heard a-bout the great,
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Hollywood motion picture actor,
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Who knew more than they did?
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And the newspapers didn't cover the story;
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Just decided to keep it hid.
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Somebody started saying it was an inside job;
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Whatever happened to him?
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Last time they saw him, down on the bow'ry;
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With his lip hanging off an old rusty bottle of gin.
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Have you ever heard a-bout the so-called Hippies?
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Down on the far side of the tracks.
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They take the eyeballs straight out of your head,
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Say son, kid, do you want your eyeballs back?
Chorus 3:
E D
Did you ever, ever see the people,
C#m D
With the tear drops in their eyes?
E D
I just can't stand it, stand it no how,
C#m A (n.D)
Living in this world of lies.
Verse 8:
F#m E D
Did you ever hear a-bout The Great De-ception?
A F#m
Well, the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run.
A F#m E D
Have you ever been down to Love City?
F#m E A
Where they rip you off with a smile, and it don't take a gun.
Outro:
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Have you ever heard about...
The Great Deception.
