White Lies from Canaries by The Hoolivans
Tracklist
| 2. | White Lies | 2:59 |
Lyrics
White Lies
I lied I was in music
It seemed much better than drowning in debt
She seemed impressed by that
She seemed impressed enough to me
I showed her a picture
Of me in front of a stranger’s car
She said “You can drive me home in that”
I said “We can walk from here”
What can we build on top of these lies?
Even white lies, even white lies?
Never meant to take it so far
But one lie led to another lie
But we came here with nothing
Now we’re leaving with something
Bread rolls in our jackets
And bottles in our pockets
We’ve made something
Out of nothing
We’ve made stories
Out of sawdust
Poetry in prosody
And sordid little secrets
She said she was a model
Of feet and hands in the nineties
I was impressed by that
It seemed plausible to me
She said she invented
A piece of punctuation of shock and surprise
“I’ll give you a use for that”
She said “You’re more common or garden”
What can we build on top of these lies?
Even white lies, even white lies?
Never meant to take it so far
But one lie led to another lie
But we came here with nothing
Now we’re leaving with something
Bread rolls in our jackets
And bottles in our pockets
We’ve made something
Out of nothing
We’ve made stories
Out of sawdust
Poetry in prosody
And sordid little secrets
