another beautiful morning under stars and bars and f series pickups and rusted out cars and they re eating breakfast at the strip bar just to have a peek and the beer soaked angels spread their wings and dream of twenties and diamonds and things and somehow that might ease the sting of the company they keep yeah and the vets still talk about the tet offensive and the freshmen boys all look so pensive because living large is so expensive hope daddy fueled the jet and we ll all fly out to the hard rock casino and we ll put on our neatly pressed and fine chinos and we ll laugh at the guy in the el camino is that the only car he could get it s a beautiful life it s just as advertised it s all for one low price just read the fine print and you ll be content with your beautiful life and record smoothies say what a sound you re the greatest thing we ve found but you re gonna have to lose a few pounds we re gonna put you on tv and don t think our place is so swank don t worry about that guy he s high on crank that s exactly why his last record tanked and let that be a lesson to me chorus and all our churches glow communion wafers trash tv shows say hey at least you don t have this strife cause you ll be warm and safe in your beautiful life yeah and it s hard to tell what s true compassion when it s dresse up in hair and nails and fashion and the tabloids all rush to cash in on what we should believe and i hope i never see the day when there s nothing left on the planet left to save and oxygen is the designer crusade as we all fight to breathe chorus