Verse
B E
I tell people, you just going through changes
B E
And that you’re acquainted both with night and day
B E
That your money’s good and you’re just being courageous
B E
On them burning bridges knowing your feet are made of clay
B E
Well I say you won’t be destroyed by your inventions
B E
That you brought it all under captivity
B E
And that you really do have all the best intentions
B A E B
But you’re making a liar out of me
[Verse 2]
B E
Well I say that you’re just young and self-tormented
B E
But that deep down you understand
B E
The hopes and fears and dreams of the discontented
B E
That threaten now to overtake your promised land
B E
Well I say you’d not sow discord among brothers
B E
Nor drain a man of his integrity
B E
That you remember the cries of orphans and their mothers
B A E B
But you’re making a liar out of me
B A B
But you’re making a liar out of me
[Verse 3]
B E
Well I say that, that ain’t flesh and blood you’re drinking
B E
In the wounded empire of your fool’s paradise
B E
With a light above your head forever blinking
B E
Turning virgins into merchandise
B E
That you must have been beautiful when you were living
B E
You remind me of some old-time used-to-be
B E
I say you can be trusted with the power you been given
B A B
But you’re making a liar out of me
[Verse 4]
B E
So many things so hard to say as you stumble
B E
To take refuge in your offices of shame
B E
As the earth beneath my feet begins to rumble
B E
And your young men die for nothin’, not even fame
B E
I say that someday you’ll begin to trust us
B E
And that your conscience has not been slain by conformity
B E
That you stand up unafraid to believe in justice
B A E B
But you’re making a liar out of me
B A E B
You’re making a liar out of me
[Verse 5]
B E
Well I can hear the sound of distant thunder
B E
From an open window at the end of every hall
B E
Now that you’re gone I got to wonder
B E
If you ever were here at all
B E
I say you never sacrificed my children
B E
To some false god of infidelity
B E
And that it’s not the Tower of Babel that you’re building
B A E B
But you’re making a liar out of me
B A E B
You’re making a liar out of me
B A E B
Now, you’re making a liar out of me
[Coda]
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