Big Songs (Of Hope and Cheer) 1

The satellites are raining down

On the international room

There's nothing secret, nothing sacred anymore

All the soldiers of the world are turning history around

They're with me now, they're breaking down the door

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Pictures in a room

I can't take it anymore

Have I awakened to a strange land

Pictures in a room

Somebody help me please

'Cause I can't sing the pains of hope in a torn world

One mother's daughter has seen her brothers

Taken to the shadowlands

Now she's waiting for six soldiers to return

And another mother's daughter 's down on channel 21

Where she's opened up her life to let it burn

And the satellites are raining down

On a Sunday afternoon

She's opened for the world to take it all

Where we face our sweetest demons in the hands of flesh and love

She's aching at the stations of the fall

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And the company say. give us more of these

Big songs of hope and cheer

Hits and hooks and riffs that shine as new

As the refugees come in, live and dying, miles across the snow

And there's nothing that this stunning world can do

Pictures in a room,

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