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