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