Tell lies to me

I need them

To smother over the truth

Tell lies to me

I breathe them

To hide the damning proof

 

Feed lies to me

I guzzle them

To keep my conscience at bay

Spin lies to me

I spread them

To get me through the day

 

Whisper lies to me

As you pat my back

Telling me we’re in this together

Sing lies to me

And sing sweetly

I rage and choke at your tether

 

Speak lies to me,

Do it constantly

So I will not give heed

As you steal our common assets

For your usury and greed

 

Throw lies at me

To parrot

And strengthen your illusion

Demand lies from me

To belittle and attack

Those revealing our collusion

 

Spit lies at me

That close my eyes

When I look into another’s

Rub lies in them

It pains to see

The haunted eyes of children and mothers

 

Pour lies over me

Do it quickly

Block the anguish from my ears

Of the poverty and conflict sown

In your callous strategy of fears

 

Croon lies to me

Please do

I rely on your lying charms

As you sign another order

Supplying genocide and arms

 

Fire those lies at me

I can’t bear to see

The battlefields, death and starvation

Heap lies over me

I can’t bear the truth

You plunder and bankrupt our nation

 

Just deceitful greedy liars

Now jostle at the helm

Self-serving cheats and bullies

Our nightmare in their realm

 

Busy gobbling at the trough

To satisfy their greed

They have no care or conscience

To a world in direst need

 

Glutted with lying and deceiving

We no longer expect the truth

As they encourage us, to encourage them

To strip the lead

From our leaking roof