The Sad Truth - Null Device

Wake from sleep covered like a burial shroud

Go do the best

Go and make the family proud

Live through waking dreams

hidden here within the crowd

Why is the sad truth no better than a simple lie?

Here in the heartland

awaken to here this cry

Say all the right words

and yet still you sigh

Why is the sad truth no better than a simple lie?

Shake from calm

learning from a naïve child

Find faith too late

Too late to make the demons wild

Need these waking dreams

just to keep the fever mild

Why is the sad truth

no better than a simple lie?

Here in the heartland

leaving us high and dry

Say all the right words

and yet still you sigh

Why is the sad truth no better than a simple lie?

Stir from haze

Angels light the empty way

I’ll carry on all through the final day

Lose those waking dreams

in the end I cannot stay.