Lies I Chose to Believe - John Moreland

Well I’ve gone and lost my faith in photographs

Cursed those martyrs that mark my past

And I long for a day when we’ll look back and laugh

About all this

But good luck finding your peace of mind

Being born into these brutal times

And these days I don’t pray when I close my eyes

I just bite my tongue a bit harder

Cause you were a lie I chose to believe

A lie I chose to believe

Let’s float these gutters up past heaven’s gate

Get me out of these damn desert states

Did you hear the one about the hand of fate?

It’ll make your heart stop

Do you ever wish you could just back out?

Take your nickels and go cash out?

Forget the faces you’ve been crying about

And see where forgiveness takes you?

Sweet surrender like the break of dawn

With the map laid out and the arrows drawn

But I think too much and wait too long

And I never tell but you know

How to lift me when I sink too low

Now I’ve found me a reason to be a man

Out on the shoulder with an outstretched hand

Just a little solid ground to stand

Is all I ever needed

So I’ll shout it out from the heavens above

Hell ain’t nothin' but the devil’s drug

And love ain’t a sickness, though I once thought it was

When I was too surrounded to see