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

They're handing out emptiness

We'll take it 'cause it's given

Free with this plastic innocence

And these standards of living

And questions, lighted questions

Burning holes into my head

Hanging like shadows o'er the sun

Staring out like the eyes of the dead

And sometimes my soul flickers

When the wind of change blows cold

Over the mire of repetition

Down the corridors of rigmarole

What I say, what I think

What I put down in ink

I'm only trying 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 the rattle of hollow applause?

Blind circles, 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

And here watching the night open like a flower

And the day start to rust

Time pound a silent hammer

On this empire of dust

And I'm thinking 'bout 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?

Oh, through the borderline

In front and behind

One pain ending while another begins

Lies, ruin, disease

Into wounds like these

Let the truth sting, yeah

Let the truth ...

And 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

Oh, 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

Let the truth sting

• Artist:David Gray
• Album:A Century Ends