Lyrics I Can Tell (When You're Telling Me Lies) - John Wesley Harding

I Can Tell (When You're Telling Me Lies)

I can tell when youre telling lies
I can see it in your smiling eyes
I cant help when youre telling lies
I can see it in your lack of surprise
I can see just where the truth doesnt lie
Watching you cut through the bind that ties
Once upon a time a story with a happy end
But thats all in the past now, its all around the bend
You cant appease me now, those hopeless things you send
And you cant please me now and we cant start again
Theres too much history, and no clean sheets
When I get to hear his story, it puts my feet to sleep
Its all romantic nothing about a heart in a rage
Murdered by some cartoon villain who ripped out the last page
Happy ever after, a prince apparent and his bride
All his disarming charm and her unfaithful side
Hes scouting for success and shes his girl guide
The day the die was cast, it was the day I died
And now your hips are up for grabs and now the chips are down
I could be jetting with the set instead of with this clown
You want it to be unabridged, all bridges should be burnt
Sometimes you must recross them, thats something you never learnt
There are some tricks you cant pull
I mean the wool that is Over my eyes
Thats what happens when lookng for love
Becomes a game of I spy
I know youre combing someones hair, or someones soothing you
A lie may well fool someone else but it tells the truth
About you to you