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