Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Western Dream, artist - New Model Army. Date of issue: 28.02.2003
Song language: English
Western Dream |
| 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 tantalising glimpses every night on TV |
| Watch the dirty hands that laboured 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 patronising 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 |