david gray
let the truth sting
The hour is out of joint Black sun has risen And the river of words Is flowing on through  The cages of tradition And they're handing out emptiness We'll take it 'cause it's given  Free with this plastic innocence  And these standards of living  Questions lighted questions Burnin' holes into my head Hanging like shadows o'er the sun Staring out like the eyes of the dead And sometimes my soul flickers When the wind of change blows cold Over the mire of repetition Down the corridors of rigmarole  What I say, what I think What I put down in ink I'm only trying to find a way to understand And I mean no harm I'm just searching for calm In the storm of mankind  Do you find it there  In the sea of faces That drowns you everyday Or in the silence and rubble and empty spaces Where children and rottweilers play Is it buried in the praise Given so cheap With a meaningless movement of the jaws In the looking glass  That flatters you Or in the rattle of hollow applause  Blind circle, moon and sun body willing, mind undone One pain ending while another begins Lies, ruin disease Into wounds like these Let the truth sting  From the hub to the limit Through the urban hollows Out into the poles of the extreme  To echo through the numbness Of these godless minutes In the shadow of delusion's regime  And here watching the night As it opens like a flower And the day starts to rust Feeling time pound Like a silent hammer On this empire of dust And I'm thinking bout the bullet And the TV screen, the dollar, and the clenched fist And if we're searching for peace How come we still believe  In hatred as the catalyst  Oh through the borderline In front and behind One pain ending While another begin Lies, ruin disease Into wounds like these Let the truth sing Yeah  Let the truth  And I feel it from the pit of my stomach Into the ditch of my mind Inside the chambers of my heart As I stare half blind At these walls of cardboard At this space that I've rented At your beauty that is crumbling Though you try so hard to prevent it  On and on Body willing, mind undone One pain ending while another begins Lies, ruin, disease Into wounds like these Let the truth sting Let the truth sting Let the truth sting