Tell a Lie

When we tell a lie, we watch it float

Into clouds and worlds we can’t control

In the mean time, birds go on and sing their honest songs

Had you left yourself an honest note

You’ll hear your words speak on their own

And sound like a man you met so long ago

I’ve wasted all this time

Reciting empty lines

That cast a spell on the ones who make me whole

And I can’t let myself give up the hope

That one of these days I’ll have control

Till now I’ve known how to shape my words

So all those who love me don’t get hurt

By my lengthy lists of ways to make things seem okay

Well if I heard it right, then life is all

Just a dance you dance until you can’t no more

And I’ve realized birds have sung the same tune all along

They say we fly, we dance for nothing more

Than to make our lives worth living for

So either way being I will be okay

I’ve wasted all this time

And I can’t let the world engulf my soul

Cuz one of these days I’ll be no more

And now my list seems a petty resort

To entertain the thoughts I had before

When I sung the lie to something wasn’t

Right when I held myself no higher than me