It's an illusion Can't believe what you hear Don't believe what you read Here and gone in a day Not what it seems this American dream Just drifting away After all that we've seem A complete waste of time Just a nursery rhyme

And you can dream So dream out loud So don't let the bastards grind you down To talk like this And act like that And I can love Don't believe what you hear Don't believe what you see If you just close your eyes

I can't walk out Because I love you too much, baby Don't you know I'm caught in a trap We're caught in a trap Why can't you see What you're doing to me When you don't believe a word I say? We can't go on together With suspicious minds (suspicious minds)

Let's not take it slow Say you just want to wait and see it all unfold But baby when you find what you're seeking Something you can believe in you just got to go So let's not take it slow I don't want to take it slow A charcoal heart that you can't

What you don't know, the legend goes, can hurt you If you only want to live and die in fear They tell us to believe just half of what we see And absolutely nothing that we hear Resist the twised truth no matter what the cost Supplant the rights with

Are we free or afraid Of what we're told Are we out of or under My mind's only made of dust From stars and clouds and oceans all unseen Mercury's in retrograde Don't believe a thing I say You know I don't believe that stuff

What's sleepin' in our soul I don't know what it is that makes me feel alive I don't know how to wake the things that sleep inside I only want to see the light that shines behind your eyes Because we need each other We believe in one another I know we're

Choose what you wish to believe Choose what you wish to see The hatred one can't ignore Let the gathering begin You say you don't know what its all about Just look around, you'll see there is no doubt The worms and maggots gather for the feast An endless

I usually don't do this, but fuck it You know what? (you know what?) You're like the hardest thing I've ever seen And I'm from the gutter so believe me I've seen some hard things You come from where the black flower grows I wanted to cut you down and

Now you know, now you know That I'm a bad liar, bad liar So look me in the eyes, tell me what you see Perfect paradise, tearin' at the seams I wish I could escape, I don't wanna fake it Wish I could erase it, make your heart believe But I'm a bad liar,