Something beautiful happened in the church house, but it didn't have to do with God
And something beautiful happened in the court house, but it didn't have to deal with the law
Something beautiful happened in the theatee but it didn't have to do with the play
And all this beautiful is smuggled like a secret and it doesn't have to be that way

'Cos something beautiful gets shot down everyday
And nothing so obscene could ever dream to take its place

They kept us splashing in the wet work so they can cash in on the network
"Lets get connected while the text is corrected"
Love, it doesn't have to be that way

My brother, he got shot up in the greenhouse
He was researching tHe cure
And my sister, she got locked up in the jailhouse but she didn't even know what for
My cousin, he got strung up outside the courthouse
He was challenging the case
something beautiful will always surround us but its just to easy to erase
and something beautiful gets shot down in every place

And something beautiful happened at the border
No!
And something beautiful happened on the corner
No!
Now nothing beatuiful is happening anyway

They keep us splashing on the wet work so they can cash in on the network
"Soft opposition if you play your position"
Love, it doesn't have to be that way

One thousand clouds so peaceful vanished in a din of rhythms from a helicopter
Turn me up, dont turn me in

The sound was deafening it tore into the bedroom and it didn't have to do with God
We loved each other like a bomb loves a body and it didn't have to do with the law
I forgot the sheets, the heat, the gentle weaponry
I won't forget the look on your face
The loudest bomb is quieter than an eyelash against the fabric of your pillowcase