The Lie

from One in My Tree by Ed Woltil

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You try
but you just can’t help yourself,
you see the lie
you take it down from the shelf
and try it on for size
and you find
that it fits the situation just fine
it gets you out of hot water this time,
you turned it into wine
with just a little white lie.

When you lie
somewhere a pig earns his wings
and can fly,
you can be most anything
you put your mind to it, brother
pluck another story from the vine
and things will work out fine

Hey Sherlock,
when you said “hey, it wasn’t me”
were you shocked
to learn that anyone could see
the chocolate on your face
and that piece of missing cake?
But you wow
us with a simple explanation and a vow
that’s just plausible enough somehow
to plant a seed of doubt
and let you wriggle out.

When you lie
somehow the shambles
that you’ve made of your life
goes up in a puff of smoke
so don’t you choke on it, brother
pluck another story from the vine
and so on down the line

Spin another tale and soon
the minnow is a whale
that you don’t recognize.
Best leave a trail of breadcrumbs
lest the real you succumbs to the lies,
the lies, the lies, the lies, the lies…

One lie leads to another
till we all lose sight of each other,
livin’ one lie leads to another
till we all lose sight of each other.

Never fear,
we mostly hear what we want to hear
and we all want to believe, so steer
the message clear
of a thread that’s better lost.
Besides, is it really such a crime
if some Einstein
should attach a different meaning?
Fine—we all know that line
was made just to be crossed.

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from One in My Tree, released September 4, 2020
©2020 by Ed Woltil (Schmoopleton Heights Music/ASCAP)

All instruments & Vocals by Ed Woltil except:

Jeremy Douglass: Bass, Percussion, Additional Keys and Vocal Arrangement

Jamie Perlow, Kasondra Rose & Rebecca Zapen: Background Vocals

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