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Painting The Night Unreal Lyrics
painting the night unreal
out-glossing neon ,selling sex-appeal
cheaper thrills and instant visions ;
dreams that men will steal
barge in on softer shoes
putting stickers on the darker hues
carnivores in pink polyester
dig that L.A. ruse
those family ties ,those brainless insulting big lies
that bald-eagle seal,so that we know it isn't real
initiate and commence countdown
there's a new sheriff in town
paint the night in your favourite shade
before the colours all fade,the thrills all decay
untill there is nothing but mediocrity on display
keep it contained and still
put some meaning in those sugared pills
let them dream their sweet psychosis
syndicate their thrills
the greatest scam ,the soft white underbelly of uncle Sam
the stench and the pain you can never contain
out-glossing neon ,selling sex-appeal
cheaper thrills and instant visions ;
dreams that men will steal
putting stickers on the darker hues
carnivores in pink polyester
dig that L.A. ruse
that bald-eagle seal,so that we know it isn't real
there's a new sheriff in town
paint the night in your favourite shade
before the colours all fade,the thrills all decay
untill there is nothing but mediocrity on display
keep it contained and still
put some meaning in those sugared pills
let them dream their sweet psychosis
syndicate their thrills
the stench and the pain you can never contain
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This is a briliant comment on the U.S.A., a country with which MP have something of a love-hate relationship with. On their first album lobotomizer was already a tune which seemed to be about America (home of the brave).
What makes this tune special for me is that I listened to it a lot befor and after septer 11th 2001 and it strikes me how much the lyrics seem to be about everything that has happened since. What the singer (Bent) is trying to say, i think, is that nothing much has changed since the days of the Vietnam war, though a lot of people in th U.S. would deny that. These days they still 'barge in' (Irak), only on 'softer shoes'. 'Putting stickers on the darker hues', the media in the U.S. are controlled mainly by large corporations and aren't really objective about what terrifying things are going on in the U.S.
A new sheriff in town seems to be about George W. Bush, although i think they wrote the song prior to his election......
the bald eagle, well, we all know what happened to him. He became extinct. Who shot one of the last bald eagles? I think it was a president, but i'm not shure. The bald eagles seal is still used, even though the animal has been extinct for years. So is the american dream. They are still trying to sell it, but it has lost it's shine a long time ago.