Ways to Lose Your Country

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Beware of movements that arise

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Painting heaven in the skies

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Telling you that they alone have the solution

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On the right, on the left

Fm                       Cm

Many roads lead to theft

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And they're one of the ways to lose your country

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Beware of the new rationale

That boosts popular morale

And schizophrenic logic terrorises

There's a distorted narrative

Where the truth will never live

It's just one of the ways to lose your country

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Beware of brazen shamelessness 

It's a nasty business    

When people are acting up with immorality 

Not humble or humane

Then chaos is soon to rein

And it's one of the ways to lose your country

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Beware of appointments and dilutions

And attacks on institutions

When the judiciaries replaced with their own followers

A superfluous state

Will sign and seal fate

Another  of the ways to lose your country

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Beware of model citizens

Who are anointed as the ones

To follow and emulate cos they are perfect

While the rest of us are left

To feel second class at best

It's just one of the ways to lose your country

VERSE 6

Beware of laughter in the streets

As they mock their new elites 

The only self-defence left is their humour

Some say it's just sequential

And at best inconsequential

But it's one of the ways to lose your country

LYRICS ONLY:

Beware of movements that arise

Painting heaven in the skies

Telling you that they alone have the solution

On the right, on the left

Many roads lead to theft

And they're one of the ways to lose your country

Beware of the new rationale

That boosts popular morale

And schizophrenic logic terrorises

There's a distorted narrative

Where the truth will never live

It's just one of the ways to lose your country

Beware of brazen shamelessness 

It's a nasty business    

When people are acting up with immorality 

Not humble or humane

Then chaos is soon to rein

And it's one of the ways to lose your country

Beware of appointments and dilutions

And attacks on institutions

When the judiciaries replaced with their own followers

A superfluous state

Will sign and seal fate

Another  of the ways to lose your country

Beware of model citizens

Who are anointed as the ones

To follow and emulate cos they are perfect

While the rest of us are left

To feel second class at best

It's just one of the ways to lose your country

Beware of laughter in the streets

As they mock their new elites 

The only self-defence left is their humour

Some say it's just sequential

And at best inconsequential

But it's one of the ways to lose your country