Lambs At The Slaughter

Intro: G C G D G

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When you're a sheep in wolf's clothing,
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you have big, important friends,
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who with a twinkle in their eyes say they'll be with you 'til the end.

They invite you out to ice cream,
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they insist you eat your fill,
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then they smile at each other and they stick you with the bill.
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They giggle extra hard when you max out your credit card.


When you're a sheep in wolf's clothing,
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you're watched over by your friends,
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they hook you up with an apartment in a big, barbed-wire pen,
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and they come and pinch your cheeks with such fatherly affection,
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and they tap into your e-mail solely for your own protection.
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If they counted votes from black sheep, would they still win their elections?

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And you live a life of privilege in the shadow of your friends,
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who've secured the greenest pastures with their business acumen,
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so you graze on the grasses and you're spared from ever thinking
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or from knowing why your friends are always snickering and winking.
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You're fed shock and awe and you swallow without blinking.

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Then one day, with dismay, your friends say you've been attacked,
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but you can buy a shred of safety with the shirt right off your back
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and your sacrifice reveals, you patriotic sons and daughters
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were once sheep in wolf's clothing now you're lambs at the slaughter.