Gift Horse - Protest The Hero

Is it the truth or a lie?

As determined by

Heavy breathing or a sudden spike

Is it the truth or a lie?

As determined by

Heavy breathing or a sudden spike

Just a few simple questions to start us out

Your name and your occupation

As I monitor the needle for the slightest variation

Just a few simple questions to start us out

You wouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth

And if you did, you’d know it wasn’t right

So tell me, what you doing there last night?

So lie to me

Provided we will still know the truth

The horse we provided was long in the tooth

But you ride it to death

Because you needed an answer

And the answer was always a

Lie to me, just lie to me

I don’t care at all

The truth is what I make it

The gavel will fall

On the heads of guilty

Whether they’re guilty at all

What exactly is the difference

Between a liar and a coward?

Futile insistence there’s a world between them

What explains their identical outcome?

«Beyond my expectation, for uncontrollable factors

This scientific investigation became for practical purposes…»

So lie to me

Provided we will still know the truth

The horse we provided was long in the tooth

But you ride it to death

Because you needed an answer

And the answer was always a

Lie to me, lie to me

I don’t care at all

The truth is what I make it

The gavel will fall

On the heads of guilty

Whether they’re guilty at all

And I hate this

I hate what this has become

My finest moment is done

And as I fade into obscurity

Take these gifts now as your own

Lord, let their faith atone

Just remember you’re a liar just like me

Just like me

Just like me

Just like me

Just like…