I Can Tell (When You`re Telling Lies) — текст песни (John Wesley Harding)

I can tell when you`re telling lies
I can see it in your smiling eyes
I can`t help when you`re telling lies
I can see it in your lack of surprise
I can see just where the truth doesn`t lie
Watching you cut through the bind that ties

Once upon a time a story with a happy end
But that`s all in the past now, it`s all around the bend
You can`t appease me now, those hopeless things you send
And you can`t please me now and we can`t start again
There`s too much history, and no clean sheets
When I get to hear his story, it puts my feet to sleep
It`s all romantic nothing about a heart in a rage
Murdered by some cartoon villain who ripped out the last page


(Chorus)


Happy ever after, a prince apparent and his bride
All his disarming charm and her unfaithful side
He`s scouting for success and she`s his girl guide
The day the die was cast, it was the day I died
And now your hips are up for grabs and now the chips are down
I could be jetting with the set instead of with this clown
You want it to be unabridged, all bridges should be burnt
Sometimes you must recross them, that`s something you never learnt


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There are some tricks you can`t pull
I mean the wool that is
Over my eyes
That`s what happens when lookng for love
Becomes a game of I Spy


I know you`re combing someone`s hair, or someone`s soothing you
A lie may well fool someone else but it tells the truth
About you to you


(Chorus)