Truth is a Poison

Truth is a poison you don’t want to know

So I’ll feed you some lies, play a part in your show

Don’t look close at the mirror-- nothing behind the glass

Just cold icy winter on a high mountain pass

A long time ago your heart was still beating

Until it was shattered when you found love fleeting

So you built your own coffin and buried it deep

Nothing escapes that nullifying sleep

Truth is a poison you don’t want to know

So I’ll feed you some lies, play a part in your show

I’ll bring you the leaflets, let you lacquer the pages

That spell out the myths handed down through the ages

And you’ll memorize all the lines you’ll be needing

While honest folk work at their planting and seeding

When they go to harvest you’ll laugh in their faces

Because you believe they’ve mistaken their places

For it’s the landlords who take all the peasants have grown

And only the wicked reap what’s been sown

Truth is a poison you don’t want to know

So I’ll feed you some lies, play a part in your show

In your world, God is dead along with your faith

And you may think you’re human but you’re only a wraith

You don’t understand-- life is both gift and risk

You heard only one side of the spinning black disc

Absorbed the grey and the muted, but forgotten the colors

Lived in stark loneliness, left the dreaming to others

For if you don’t strive and hope, you won’t be let down

And if you don’t fight, you can’t lose the crown

Truth is a poison you don’t want to know

So I’ll feed you some lies, play a part in your show

Because you are all that I want; you are all that I know

I’ll stay with you always, even let the myth grow

If some day you thaw and you see my true face

We can learn to love and perhaps we’ll find grace

Until then, Truth is a poison you don’t want to know

So I’ll feed you some lies, play a part in your show

Because you’re all that I want and all that I know