Beautiful People Big Country

If beauty is an ecstasy
And anger keeps you poor
A hungry man is never free
A rich man never cured
Things were never what they used to be

Now every crowd has its silver lining
We all got stuff to sell
And you may live your life so bitter
But you remember it so well
Things were never what they used to be

For all the folks who can run the world
Drive cabs or cut your hair

And the sun may set without your help
But you're beautiful people to me
You may fall before you're pushed
But it's beautiful people I see
If you only see the stars when it's dark
That's enough for me
An empty soul with a full opinion
Is beautiful people to me

It's all the same in different hats
The proof of the missing link
A nation talking to itself
And none of us can think
Things were never what they used to be