Baby lie to me 'cause I couldn't stand the truth And I couldn't bear the thought of losin' you Baby lie to me, tell me everything's all right And when I'm sound asleep, you can fade into the night Girl, instead of sayin' goodbye Girl look at you right

I'd tell her to speak up, tell her to shout out Talk a bit louder, be a bit prouder Tell her she's beautiful, wonderful Everything she doesn't see You gotta speak up, you gotta shout out And know that right here, right now You can be beautiful, wonderful

Why you wanna be so mean? You've gone and let your true colors show You're a perpetual blues machine Tell me why you wanna be so cold? Baby why you wanna be so cold? You had style, you had class You had everything to make a love last You had grace, you

Christ I'm a sidewinder I swear it's everywhere It's everything I'm a California King Deep inside of a parallel universe It's getting harder and harder To tell what came first Under water where thoughts can breathe Easily Far away you were made in a sea

Baby lie to me 'cause I couldn't stand the truth And I couldn't bear the thought of losin' you Baby lie to me, tell me everything's all right And when I'm sound asleep, you can fade into the night Girl, instead of sayin' goodbye Girl look at you right

There are two men down Everything you say to me sounds just like that Oh what a day I chose for you To tell you that I loved you You know you sounded like knuckles that never cracked Maybe I should yield to you Maybe I should yield to him 27 seconds go

You love me for everything you hate me for I am the dirt you created And your whore But let me tell you something baby I am your sinner (And I can be your whore) So how can this be? You’re praying to me As I look in your eyes

All I want is everything I don't know how to leave you And I don't know how to stay I've got things that I must tell you That I don't know how to say The man behind these empty words Is crying out in shame Holding on to this sinking ship

Tell her about it You got to tell her about it Tell her everything you feel Tell her all your crazy dreams Let her know you need her Let her know how much she means I don't want to see you let a good thing

We swallow the spit, Steal acceptance lend denial, Telling me that my life is free and boundless, Then I'm forced to stay between the lines, They construct death to demolish life, Plant the seeds to harvest loss, Found empty truth is full of lies, We're