Making A Liar Out Of Me

verse 1 I tell people, you just going through changes And that you’re acquainted both with night and day That your money’s good and you’re just being courageous On them burning bridges knowing your feet are made of clay Well I say you won’t be destroyed by your inventions That you brought it all under captivity And that you really do have all the best intentions But you’re making a liar out of me verse 2 Well I say that you’re just young and self-tormented But that deep down you understand The hopes and fears and dreams of the discontented That threaten now to overtake your promised land Well I say you’d not sow discord among brothers Nor drain a man of his integrity That you remember the cries of orphans and their mothers But you’re making a liar out of me But you’re making a liar out of me verse 3 Well I say that, that ain’t flesh and blood you’re drinking In the wounded empire of your fool’s paradise With a light above your head forever blinking Turning virgins into merchandise That you must have been beautiful when you were living You remind me of some old-time used-to-be I say you can be trusted with the power you been given But you’re making a liar out of me verse 4 So many things so hard to say as you stumble To take refuge in your offices of shame As the earth beneath my feet begins to rumble And your young men die for nothin’, not even fame I say that someday you’ll begin to trust us And that your conscience has not been slain by conformity That you stand up unafraid to believe in justice But you’re making a liar out of me You’re making a liar out of me Verse 5 Well I can hear the sound of distant thunder From an open window at the end of every hall Now that you’re gone I got to wonder If you ever were here at all I say you never sacrificed my children To some false god of infidelity And that it’s not the Tower of Babel that you’re building But you’re making a liar out of me You’re making a liar out of me Now, you’re making a liar out of me Coda |