Silly Old Lies

from Songs Of Earth And Wind by John Wylde

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lyrics

I used to love you, father, very much
when it was fashionably cool.
I used to spill my heart in prayer
every afternoon when I'd come home from school,
but now I know you're just like everybody else,
a pillar of regret,
a memory I wish nothing more than to forget.

You said you loved me all the time,
you said you hated everybody else
who dared to turn to other mysteries
rather than sacrifice themselves,
but let me tell you now, I don't think that it's very nice
to hate on others just because of silly old lies.

I killed you yesterday
in the spring of my imagination,
you broke your promises and so I broke my own.
God in heaven, be my witness,
you filled my head with portraits of the dead,
silly old lies.

If god is love he must be quite oblivious to pain,
to hungry children in the desert,
to drunken hobos in the rain.
Why are there so many questions left for doubt?
Why is every question only answered with these silly old lies.

My dear old father, can't you see,
you're just a passing phase.
My dear old father, you and me,
we've got to go out separate ways.
So if you see me on the street someday,
just pretend you've never met me,
that's what you've been doing anyway.

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from Songs Of Earth And Wind, released April 22, 2017

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