John Wesley Harding - I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies) lyrics

I can tell when you're telling lies

I can see it in your smiling eyes

I can't help when you're telling lies

I can see it in your lack of surprise

I can see just where the truth doesn't lie

Watching you cut through the bind that ties

Once upon a time a story with a happy end

But that's all in the past now, it's all around the bend

You can't appease me now, those hopeless things you send

And you can't please me now and we can't start again

There's too much history, and no clean sheets

When I get to hear his story, it puts my feet to sleep

It's all romantic nothing about a heart in a rage

Murdered by some cartoon villain who ripped out the last page

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Happy ever after, a prince apparent and his bride

All his disarming charm and her unfaithful side

He's scouting for success and she's his girl guide

The day the die was cast, it was the day I died

And now your hips are up for grabs and now the chips are down

I could be jetting with the set instead of with this clown

You want it to be unabridged, all bridges should be burnt

Sometimes you must recross them, that's something you never learnt

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There are some tricks you can't pull

I mean the wool that is

Over my eyes

That's what happens when lookng for love

Becomes a game of I Spy

I know you're combing someone's hair, or someone's soothing you

A lie may well fool someone else but it tells the truth

About you to you

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