Big Songs Of Hope And Cheer

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   [Verse 1]

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The satellites are raining down
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On the international room
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There's nothing secret, nothing sacred anymore
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All the soldiers of the world are turning
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History around
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They're with me now, they're breaking down the door


   [Verse 2]

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One mother's daughter has seen her brothers
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Taken to the shadowlands
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Now she's waiting for six soldiers to return
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And another mother's daughter 's down
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On channel twenty one
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Where she's opened up her life to let it burn


   [Chorus]

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Pictures in a room
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I can't take it anymore
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And I can't sing the pains of hope in a torn... world


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   [Verse 3]

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And the company say. give us more of these
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Big songs of hope and cheer
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Hits and hooks and riffs that shine as new
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As the refugees come in, live and dying,
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miles across the snow
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And there's nothing that this stunning world can do


   [Chorus]

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Pictures in a room
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I can't take it anymore
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And I can't sing the pains of hope in a torn... world


   [Chorus]

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Pictures in a room
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Somebody help me please
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Cause I can't sing the pains of hope in a strange... place


   [Link]

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   [Verse 4]

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And the satellites are raining down
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On a Sunday afternoon
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She's opened for the world to take it all
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Where we face our sweetest demons in the hands
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Of flesh and love
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She's aching at the stations of the fall


   [Chorus]

G             Em
Pictures in a room
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I can't take it anymore
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And I can't sing the pains of hope in a torn... world


   [Chorus]

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Pictures in a room
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Somebody help me please
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Cause I can't sing the pains of hope in a strange... place


   [Outro]

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The satellites are raining down