1. Did you ever hear a-bout The Great De-ception?
Well, the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run.
Have you ever been down to Love City?
Where they rip you off with a smile, and it don't take a gun.
2. Don't it hurt so bad in Love city?
Don't it make you not want to bother at all?
And don't they look so self righteous,
When they pin you up a-gainst the wall?
R1: Did you ever, ever see the people,
With the tear drops in their eyes?
I just can't stand it, stand it no how,
Living in this world of lies.
3. Did you ever hear a-bout the Rock and Roll singers?
Got three or four Cadil-lacs.
Saying power to the people, dance to the music;
Wants you to pat him on the back.
4. Have you ever heard a-bout the great Rembrandt?
Have you ever heard a-bout how he could paint?
And he didn't have e-nough money for his brushes;
And they thought it was rather quaint.
R2: But you know it's no use re-peating,
And you know it's no use to think about it.
'Cos when you stop to think a-bout it; you don't need it.
5. Have you ever heard a-bout the great, Hollywood motion picture actor,
Who knew more than they did?
And the newspapers didn't cover the story;
Just decided to keep it hid.
6. Somebody started saying it was an inside job;
Whatever happened to him?
Last time they saw him, down on the bow'ry;
With his lip hanging off an old rusty bottle of gin.
7. Have you ever heard a-bout the so-called Hippies?
Down on the far side of the tracks.
They take the eyeballs straight out of your head,
Say son, kid, do you want your eyeballs back?
R3: Did you ever, ever see...
8. Did you ever hear a-bout The Great De-ception?
Well, the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run.
Have you ever been down to Love City?
Where they rip you off with a smile, and it don't take a gun.
Have you ever heard about...
The Great Deception.
