Margaret Atwood - We are Hard on Each Other lyrics

I

We are hard on each other
And call it honesty
Choosing our jagged truths
With care and aiming them across
The neutral table

The things we say are true it is our crooked
Aims, our choices turn them criminal
Ii

Of course your lies are more amusing:
You make them new each time

Your truths, painful and boring
Repeat themselves over & over
Perhaps because you own so few of them

Iii

A truth should exist, it should not be used
Like this if I love you

Is that a fact or a weapon?