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CHEMICAL SUNRISE

Don't the sky look beautiful today
What you can't see doesn't hurt you
Poison clouds conceal the real decay
Whatever you do don't look behind you
It paints a picture so serene
To watch the orange turn to green
Just like an image from a dream
Paint by numbers with no key
Wash your brushes in the sea
Impressionism via industry

Avert your eyes, it's no surprise
The sky's disguised to hide the chemical sunrise
Don't you forget, it's not over yet
Why do we let them paint a chemical sunset

Don't the sky look beautiful tonight
Smog reflects the light around you
Two lovers kiss beneath the stale moonlight
But things are dieing all around you
It's not a trick of the light
That makes the sun burn so bright
It's that we exercise our right
Bring the oceans to the boil
Mix in well the broken soil
You're free to paint your landscape in oil
Avert your eyes, it's no surprise
The sky's disguised to hide the chemical sunrise
Don't you forget, it's not over yet
Why do we let them paint a chemical sunset

Cars and planes and boats and trains
Factories and profit gains
Will bring the onset of the rains
Global schemes and big machines
Will send us well beyond our means
More than science fiction future dreams

Don't you forget, it's not over yet
Why do we let them paint a chemical sunset
Avert your eyes, it's no surprise
The sky's disguised to hide the chemical sunrise

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from A Nasty Piece Of Work LP (Full Session), released February 4, 1998

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Four Letter Word Cardiff, UK

Punk rock band formed in 1991 in Cardiff, U.K. Released debut EP in 1995, debut album in 1998 on BYO Records. Toured U.S./Canada in 1998. Released second album on BYO in 1999 before Trade Mark issues with the first of many name claimers. FLW fought and won and soldiered on releasing two further albums and a handful of EPs, toured the U.S. again, before in 2011 they called it a day after 20 years. ... more

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