Sage Francis - Love The Lie lyrics

You gotta love the lie
You gotta love the lie

Love (love) life (life)
Love (love) God, girls and lies
I can't hear through those veneers
But you keep speaking with
Those pearly whites

Love the life that you live
If it gives love back
You ain't gotta stay together for the kids
If you want to disappear don't announce it
Vanish in thin air and bounce quick
Fix the cowlick slick your hair back
Ride the rim bareback you stared at
Lady Godiva might have been an exhibitionist
I'm not here to judge voyeuristic fetishes
If nobody looked it's a closed book
You could put your hang-ups on a coat hook
I'm from a puritanical land
Where they burn witches
I'm the result of a welfare
Running up your sickness
Cure never came Jesus never helped
We were all to blame god beat us with a belt
If I heard your name I'd retreat into myself
I won't hurt your name I'll
Keep it to myself with

No legacy to claim no enemies to squelch
No chemical imbalance that
Could remedy yourself
Pedestals for the parent's medicine
Is on the shelf
Put the trophy in the spotlight
Watch as it melts
Metal would've survived plastic is cheaper
Ran into the fire she asked me to leave her
I did what I could with
The wood and the flammables
Stood with the good little animals
Ran with the bulls
Soot on my hands that were full put
The good book on the mantle
Burn baby burn you could serve as a candle
Last thing I heard was her on the piano
Last thing I saw was her being herself
By beating herself to see if it could help
If I heard your name I'd retreat into myself
I won't hurt your name I'll
Keep it to myself with

Love the lie

The cure never came Jesus never helped
We were all to blame God beat us with a belt
If I heard your name I'd retreat into myself
I won't hurt your name I'll
Keep it to myself
No legacy to claim no enemies to squelch
No chemical imbalance that
Could remedy it'self
Pedestals for the parent's medicine
Is on the shelf
Put the trophy in the spotlight watch
As it melts with love

Love the lie