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American Beauty

from American Beauty by SaviorSelf.07.05.98

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The name for this track was taken from the film of the same name, and originally meant to reflect the film moreso than anything else. Instead, it became this sarcastic comment on the so-called "beauty" of modern America.

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Oh beautiful
for polluted skies
Oh beautiful America, in my eyes
It would take a blind man to see the beauty here
Oh beautiful America

The beaten people
working for too little
minimum wage just ain't enough to get by
so they join the army
get shipped off to war
maybe if they're lucky they'll come home alive
Oh beautiful
for polluted skies
Oh beautiful America, in my eyes
It would take a blind man to see the beauty here
Oh beautiful America

Homeless veterans
Substandard care
For the wounded and the traumatized
how does it happen
that soldiers get ignored
by the nation they gave of their lives for
Oh beautiful
for polluted skies
Oh beautiful America, in my eyes
It would take a blind man to see the beauty here
Oh beautiful America
Oh beautiful... oh beautiful...

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from American Beauty, released July 5, 2007
Written, Produced & Recorded by Michael Johns

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SaviorSelf.07.05.98 Canton, Ohio

SaviorSelf.07.05.98 is the musical journal of MAV_SKY-1.exe (Maverick Skywalker-1), an artificial lifeform granted sentience & emotion by contracting the SaviorSelf.07.05.98 virus. The story about a Machine with a Soul as it learns to cope with its newfound "humanity", existing as an anomaly between the machine & human worlds.

Created & Produced by Michael Johns on a home computer, 2007-2012.
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