[Silence]
[Instrumental – Soft Piano, Low Synth Pulse, Subtle Snare Tap]
[Intro]
[Muted Guitar, Distant Organ, Slow Bass Line]
Words fall heavy in the air…
But none of them are really there…
[Verse 1]
You built your world on shifting sand
Truth slipping through your hand
Every promise, every line
Twisted further every time
Faces change but not the game
Different words, same old blame
Every answer breaks apart
Before it even has a start
[Pre-Chorus]
You keep spinning what you say
‘Til meaning drifts away
But the echoes still remain
Calling out through all the pain
[Refrain]
Lie after lie
(You don’t even try)
To say what’s true
(You never do)
It’s time to come clean
(Know what I mean)
Come and be upright
(When confronted with the light)
[Chorus]
Stacking shadows in the air
Like truth was never there
Every word becomes a mask
Hiding what we didn’t ask
Lie after lie
Till the reasons all run dry
No more hiding in disguise
When the truth is in your eyes
[Instrumental Break – Rising Guitar, Echo Piano, Tight Drum Pattern]
[Verse 2]
Every story bends and folds
Turning silver into gold
But the shine begins to fade
In the mess that you have made
What you built can’t stand for long
When the foundation’s wrong
Even silence starts to speak
When the structure turns too weak
[Pre-Chorus]
And the weight of what you’ve said
Echoes louder in your head
No more running from the past
It was never meant to last
[Refrain]
Lie after lie
(You don’t even try)
To say what’s true
(You never do)
It’s time to come clean
(Know what I mean)
Come and be upright
(When confronted with the light)
[Bridge]
No more hiding in the shade
No more deals that you have made
Every mask begins to fall
When honesty is standing tall
What remains when lies are gone?
Can you finally move on?
[Final Chorus – Full Band, Driving Drums, Layered Vocals]
Lie after lie
Now the silence tells you why
All the fiction, all the disguise
Fades out in a final sigh
Lie after lie
But the truth will still survive
Even after all your tries
It’s still there when everything dies
[Outro]
[Soft Piano, Fading Guitar Harmonics]
No more lies to amplify…
Just the truth you can’t deny…
From the album “Stranger Than Fiction“