Now all the lies are beginning to show,
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And you're not the country that I used to know.
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I loved you once from my head to my toe,
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But now my belief is shaken.
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And all your ways are so untrue,
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No one breaks promises the way that you do.
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You guided me, I trusted you,
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But now my illusion's shaken.
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Thought this empire would be here
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At least a thousand years.
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But all the expectations and aspirations,
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Slowly disappear.
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Now all the lies have gone on too long,
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And a million apologies can't right the wrong.
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Soldiers die but the lies go on,
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But soon we will awaken.
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In our expectations for the future,
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We were not to know.
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We had expectations, now we've reached
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As far as we can go.
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And all your manners are too, too polite,
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Just to prove that your conscious is white and bright.
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You had your day so get ready for the night,
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For another dawn is breaking.
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We had expectations, now we've reached
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As far as we can go.
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Expectations
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| Ray Davies |
