Vic Chesnutt - Distortion lyrics

Everybody lies what’s the big deal?
It’s impossible to know what
Is and isn’t sealed
Faith is the lies we tell and tell ourselves
Life is the lies we tell everybody else
History is a daisy chain of lies
Humans love distortion
Public record is a poetic device
Blown way out of all proportion
I look at the color red, and say ‘red’
Everyone else looks at the
Color and says ‘reddish’
We all say I don’t believe it ‘til I see it
But so much happens between
Light hitting the eye
And the assimilation of that
Data into consciousness simple beam bending
Or obscuring lens anomalies
Or electrical distortion along
The optic nerve
But more mysterious are the magnetic osmotics
Sloshing around inside
The hifalutin grey filter switchboard
That is brain miles of rough road
Vital baggage is tousled or
Tossed off the truck
Everyone sees it in a certain way
Everyone knows it as only they can know it
And everyone has things that
Only they can see understanding breaks down
Gulfs in agreement develop
Concrete terms crumble
We all define the stuffs and
Stages of our worlds
With terse tags and populist generalities
We all know a rose is sometimes a rose
But what fucking color is it?
What fucking color is it? Everybody fibs
Myths are entertained
Delusions are encouraged and
Or covertly ingrained
Faith is the lies we tell and tell ourselves
Life is the lies we tell everybody else
Common knowledge is a daisy chain of lies
Humans love distortion
Civilization is costume revelry
Culture by coercion