LIES WE TELL
Oh god is that really you and after all of these years
Must have been out of my mind, I didn’t know you were here
Got caught up with a friend, we went out for a ride
then we stopped in for a drink and just to murder some time
Tell, me how have
you been,
hope you been keeping warm
are you still there in the city
or did you move to that farm
and all those plans that you made, did you see them all through
or did you take it in stride and do the best you could do?
There are lies we
never tell
but we mean them just the same
There are feelings that we feel
that there are no words to say
Me, I’m doing
just fine,
nothing much has changed
except a wife and a child
and our home on the range
I still sit up all night,
writing songs for no one
I go to sleep with the sun
and with my room all undone
I still keep telling myself
I’ll be discovered some day
If only time is the cost,
then the price I’ll have paid
to build my legacy,
my philosophies,
lost immortality
There are lies we
tell our selves,
sometimes others go along
There are feelings that we feel
even though we now they’re wrong.
OK we’re back
in the room
and I must confess
I saw you right from the start
cause you were wearingthat dress
But when I looked at you,
your eyes looked away
so I turned to me friend
and wished that you’d go away
Because there’s nothing to say,
I like to tell myself
there’s nothing left to say
when there’s too much to say,
I always tell myself
there’s nothing left to say
There are times
when all we have
it still seems so far away
and there are nights when all we want
doesn’t seem like much to me
and there are fears we never say,
cause we hope they’ll go away
and there are secret tears we shed
as we turn our backs in bed
There are lies we
never tell
but we meant to anyway
and there are things we’ve never felt,
but we said them anyway.
Like. . . “Me? I’m doing just fine.”
all lyrics copyright 2004 Damien Youth