True are my words, ladies and gentlemen
Yeah we can make things up. We can make things up
Yeah we can just make things up. Yeah we can just make things up.
Yeah, we can just... yeah, we can just...
I do it several times a day, well I do mean well,
Well I do mean good, what I mean is, I mean
If God is sitting up there with some sort of polygraph
I'm making waves on his paper like a storm in a glass.
If you do something you know it comes back
You are allowed to feel the heat of regret and anguish
When the karma account is overdrawn, it's complicated
But I know I'll be served my share of it all.
For honesty is the best policy
I wish it could always be that simple
But I'm a bastard withdrawing more
Yeah, I admit it now but I don't really want to.
Refr:
No-one can lie like us, or what do you think?
I think it's like some kind of
sick type of tragicomic, and we're tumbling towards it
It goes in the karma account
I told Lisa I was stuck in a meeting,
but in reality I was having a coffee with Pia from Gothenburg
And Peter told me he was at a family dinner
But Ali saw him with a girl at [the restaurant] Gräddhyllan ["The Cream Rack"]
And my sis wondered why I hadn't shown up
I said I would have phoned but my battery had died
And Dad told me that his health was good
But the doctor phoned Mum with a different version
And Fiddy sells crack and carries a gun
And Diddy drops raps 'cause it's his passion
And Bush said Saddam was busy building weapons
And Cheney certainly wouldn't cash in on it
And I told my book keeper that I had a fever,
but was still in the bar numbing my liver
Cause you stand behind the truth, hide behind lies
Oh s*** I probably lie even in my dreams.
I lie to myself as if I have no idea, I'm
The most gullible in a 15 mile radius
If all I know is that I don’t know anything
Then this whole truth thing is a terrible fit.
So I build castles of air with bridges of air between them
But in my imagination it’s so rare that
lies flow away, the truth remains.
Between me, I and we it’s a triple morality
And record low levels of truth found in the north
The hardest facts we can ignore
That we stand there and rock between the real and the fake
We’re hypocrites, we exaggerate, we season and salt it
And I speak the truth even when I lie
Sometimes get a conscience, but sometimes just enjoy.
I can just make things up
Spit a load of scams
Yeah you can make things up, we can build a curtain
That's how we live pretend so
yeah, I can just make things up
and you can just make things up
We can make things up
We can build a curtain
That's how we live pretend so...