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11/24/2005

 
lies

everytime you tell a lie
an honest man dies

tonight
i killed a family of five

i don't know
how anyone around me survives

i was a prize fighter
i never took the dives

but then the rent was late
so i paid the price

when i told them
i'd come clean
they punched me in the eyes

now i no longer try
to be the good guy

single tongue
circumcised

with experience
you get wise

in the ways
of covering tracks

it should come as no surprise
that i would advise
deny, deny, deny
if they try to catch you in a lie

if they question your alibis
you should in turn
read them their rights

because
anytime a person lies
a tiny part of their soul dies

and just as second-hand smoke
eats away the throat

one good lie
makes an honest man
a ghost

until there's nothing
to remember him by

until our hearts bleed dry
of hope

until we're all like frazzled salesman
at the end of our ropes

willing to say

anything

to close the deal

willing even

to believe

the fantasy is real