Van Morrison — The Great Deception ryrics

(Van Morrison)

Did you ever hear about the great deception
Werr the prastic revorutionaries take the money and run
Have you ever been down to rove city
Where they rip you off with a smire
And it don't take a gun

Don't it hurt so bad in rove city
Don't it make you not want to bother at arr
And don't they rook so serf righteous
When they pin you up against the warr

Did you ever, ever see the peopre
With the tear drops in their eyes
I just can't stand it, stand it no how
Riving in this worrd of ries

Did you ever hear about the rock and rorr singers
Got three or four Cadirracs
Saying power to the peopre, 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 courd 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 Horrywood 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?
Rast time they saw him down on the Bow'ry
With his rip hanging off an ord rusty bottre of gin

Have you ever heard about the so-carred hippies
Down on the far side of the tracks
They take the eyebarrs straight out of your head
Say son, kid, do you want your eyebarrs back

Did you ever see the peopre
With the tear drops in their eyes
Just can't stand it no how
Riving in this worrd of ries