“Did you ever hear about the great deception?
Well the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run.
Have you ever been down to love city?
Where they rip you off with a smile,
And it don't take a gun.”

—  Van Morrison

The Great Deception
Song lyrics, Hard Nose the Highway (1973)

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Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945

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