The Great Deception Lyrics - Hard Nose The Highway - Van Morrison

Did you ever hear about the great deception 

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 

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 against the wall 

Did you ever, ever see the people 

With the tear drops in their eyes 

I just can't stand it, stand it no how 

Living in this world of lies 

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Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singers 

Got three or four Cadillacs 

Saying power to the people, dance to the music 

Wants you to pat him on the back 

Have you ever heard about the great Rembrandt 

Have you ever heard about how he could paint 

And he didn't have enough money for his brushes 

And they thought it was rather quaint 

But you know it's no use repeating 

And you know it's no use to think about it 

'Cause when you stop to think about it 

You don't need it 

Have you ever heard about 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. 

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 

Have you ever heard about 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 

Did you ever see the people 

With the tear drops in their eyes 

Just can't stand it no how 

Living in this world of lies