Western Dreams Lyrics - Singles - New Model Army

Gather round and listen and I'll tell you how's it's done 

How they manage to make idiots out of everyone 

Take a human population with their hunger and their pain 

And the weaknesses that cripple them again and again 

Invent a splendid party where dreams can be won 

And with bright flashing lights, the heartaches are gone 

With sex and with money and with everything for free 

Then show tantalizing glimpses every night on TV. 

Watch the dirty hands that labored hard for you 

Stretching out like children for a crumb that they can chew 

Give a car and video and a little bit to spare 

And go on promising that more could all be theirs 

Ch: All lies, all lies, all schemes all schemes 

Every winner means a looser in the western dream 

The producer swears silently it cannot be heard 

And the camera crew are muttering those four letter words 

Another take is needed so the show can go on 

With a patronizing smile and a popular song 

They tell when to laugh, they tell you when to cheer 

So the audience at home will get the right idea 

They watch like children left out of a playground gang 

Conforming their lives the way they hope will get them in 

Ch: All lies, all lies, all schemes all schemes 

Every winner means a looser in the western dream 

It seems to me sometimes there's only two ways to choose 

In this whirlpool made of a thousands years 

Either live in these ghettos and know your place 

Or you trample over everyone in the human race 

I wish we could find another way to go 

Without the Ghost of Cain in everything we do 

The bitterness in failure and the dirt in success 

This is our choice