Conspiracy Theory - Steve Earle

What if I told you it was done with mirrors

What if I showed you it was all a lie

Better be careful, someone might hear ya The walls have ears and the sky has eyes

What if I said you were only dreamin'

What you wanna bet that all you gotta do Is open up your eyes and you will wake up screamin'

When you realize that it’s all come true

Hush, now don’t you believe it Cover your head and close your eyes

Now, take it or leave it Go back to bed

Now don’t you cry

Half a million soldiers fly across the water

One in ten are never comin’back again

Fifty thousand sons who never grew to fathers

Don’t you ever wonder who they might have been

What if you could’ve been there on that day in Dallas

What if you could wrestle back the hands of time

Maybe somethin’could’ve been done in Memphis

We wouldn’t be livin’in a dream that’s died

Go on and tell yourself again there are no secrets

Go on and tell yourself that you don’t want to know

It’s best that you believe that you don’t hear the footsteps

That follow you around no matter where you go Maybe you were thinkin’that it didn’t matter

Maybe you believed nobody else would care

But once you’ve added every little lie together

You finally find the truth was always waiting there

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