David Gray - Let The Truth Sting Lyrics
The hour is out of joint
Black sun has risen
And the river of words
Is flowing on through
The cages of tradition
We'll take it, cos 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
As the wind of change blows cold
Down the corridors of rigmarole
What I say, what I think
What I put down in ink
I'm only tryin' 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 every day
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
But 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 about 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
Through the borderline
In front and behind
Down the road of thorns
Between the barbwire and the soul
Bitters and chains
Is all that remains
Where the wheel has rolled
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
Other Lyrics by Artist
- David Gray - Nos Da Cariad
- David Gray - Forgetting
- David Gray - Gossamer Thread
- David Gray - The Old Chair
- David Gray - In God's Name
- David Gray - We Could Fall In Love Again Tonight
- David Gray - Holding On
- David Gray - When I Was In Your Heart
- David Gray - A New Day At Midnight
- David Gray - Dave Jones' Locker
- David Gray - Fixative
- David Gray - The Dotted Line
- David Gray - A Million Years
- David Gray - Who’s Singing Now
- David Gray - Old Father Time
- David Gray - Indeed I Will
- David Gray - A Moment Changes Everything
- David Gray - Foundling
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- Jennings, Waylon - Born To Love You
- Jennings, Waylon - Down Came The World
- Jennings, Waylon - The Dark Side Of Fame
- Jennings, Waylon - John's Back In Town
- Jennings, Waylon - Listen, They're Playing My Song
- Jennings, Waylon - Hangin' On
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