MINDLIE (22)

MIND LIE by John Daugherty 10/2003

VERSE I:

I’M SITTING IN THIS SITTING ROOM, WAITING FOR A BUS,
THINKING ALL THE TIME I COULD BE WALKING,
I PICK UP A CULTURE MAGAZINE TO RE-OCCUPY MY MIND, BUT,

WORDS UNCLEAR, PICTURES SMEARED, I COULD BE
TALKING,
A POLICEWOMAN APPROCHES ME AND ASKS ME WHERE I LIVE, SHE’S
WEARING THIS BADGE THAT READS, “I’LL LIE FOR ANYONE”,
I THINK, IN FRIGHT, THAT THIS VERY NIGHT, I’M LIVING

WHERE I, AM, BUT I SING TO HER, “I KNOW, I DON’T WANT ANY”,

REFRAIN:

YOU SEE, IT’S A FACT, REALITY DOES PREVAIL,
YOU CAN SWEAR AND WHINE,
YOU CAN WASTE YOUR TIME,
YOU CAN LIE WITH THE SWINE,
BUT IN TRUTH YOU ARE ALONE, AND ALL THAT FOLLOWS,

VERSE II:

I BOUGHT A NEWSPAPER, HOPING FOR SOME NEWS, ABOUT THIS,WAR OR THAT I AM FINANCING; I’M NOT THE KIND TO HURT ANYONE, I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND, BUT IF NOT FOR WAR WE MIGHT HAVE TO START ‘NOT-LYING’,
AND SHIT, WE’VE LIED FOR CENTURIES, WE CAN’T STOP NOW,

BETTER THE TRAIL WE KNOW THAN ANY OTHER.
WELL, ANYWAY, THERE WAS NO NEWS, BLIND MEN LED BY BLIND DOGS, MORE OF THIS SHIT, SO SAD IT’S ALMOST FUNNY,

REFRAIN:

YOU SEE, IT’S A FACT, REALITY DOES PREVAIL,
YOU CAN SWEAR AND WHINE,
YOU CAN WASTE YOUR TIME,
YOU CAN LIE WITH THE SWINE,
BUT IN TRUTH YOU ARE ALONE, AND ALL THAT FOLLOWS,

VERSE III:

I READ OF MR. BUSH, WHO DOESN’T HAVE A CLUE, AS THE TONGUE FOR AMERICAN CENTURY, HE CAN’T CUT It; MR. CHENEY IN THE REAR, MASTER PUPPETEER, SIMPLE GREED, LYING NEED, NO OTHER VISION, A CRIME CALLS FOR A PUNISHMENT AND I HAVE JUSTLY THE ONE: SEVEN YEARS, EACH ALONE, IN HIS OWN MIND,


VERSE IV:

NO, I CANNOT ALLOW IT, WE MUST NOT STOP THERE, EACH OF

US,
ALONE HAS AN ACCOUNTING,
WE PRAISE OURSELVES FOR EVERLASTING KEEPING-ON,

KEEPING-ON,
YET NONE OF US HAS EMBRACED HIS OWN POTENTIAL,

REFRAIN:

YOU SEE, IT’S A FACT, REALITY DOES PREVAIL,
YOU CAN SWEAR AND WHINE,
YOU CAN WASTE YOUR TIME,
YOU CAN LIE WITH THE SWINE,
BUT IN TRUTH YOU ARE ALONE,
AND ALL THAT FOLLOWS,

VERSE V:

THE GREAT MIND LIE, OUR BIRTH-RIGHT, OUR LIVING CURSE,
FROM WHICH FOLLOWS OUR FEAR AND TERROR TILL OUR LAST, DYING GASP, WHICH HOLDS US AS MORTAL HOSTAGES, PERPETRATORS,

HOWEVER WILLING, WILL JUSTIFY IT’S END IN DESTRUCTION,
THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF HISTORY, SURVIVAL HAS BEEN THE KING OF THE NEWS,
WITH REASON AND PHILOSOPHY SOMEWHERE ON THE BACK PAGES,
THE USE OF IRRATIONAL MEANS TO SUPPORT RATIONAL INSTITUTION
SATISFIES EXPEDIENCY BUT DESTROYS INTEGRITY,

REFRAIN:

SO YOU SEE YOU ARE ALONE,
AT THE END OF THE DAY,
AND AS THE NEW DAY COMES,
THAT IS ONLY PROPER,

Verse VI:

NOW YOU SEE, THIS ALL STARTED,
SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION YEARS AGO TODAY,
COUPLE OF NEANDERTHALS ARGUING OVER A ROAD-KILL,
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BAY,

EASY FOR THE LARGER BRUTE TO CLAIM POSSESSION OF THE

FOOD;
DIFFERENT TRIBES, STRANGE NAMES, DIFFERENT TALK,
NOT HUMAN,

THE GREED FOR FEED STARTED THE LIE, THAT HAS OVERCOME

US ALL,
THAT ONE MAN’S INTEGRITY DOESN’T MATTER,

YOU CAN SEE THIS LIES’ EFFECT,
IN EVERY PROBLEM IN THE WORLD TODAY,
FROM WAR TO OBESITY, THE CAUSE IS SO CLEAR,

THE SOLUTION IS CLEAR AS WELL,
THOUGH I’M NOT SURE WE’RE NOT TOO LATE,
FEW HAVE THE COURAGE TO BE COUNTING,

ONE PERSON, WITH REASON AND LOGIC AS HIS TOOLS AND CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE AS HIS PURPOSE,
CAN EXEMPLIFY RATIONAL LIVING,
THAT PERSON IS YOU!
WHAT WILL YOU DO, DON’T WAIT FOR TOMORROW,

REFRAIN:

I SEE THERE’S A CHANCE THAT YOU’LL COME TO UNDERSTAND,
THAT CONTINUANCE OF HUMAN HISTORY RESTS WITH YOU,
SUCCESSFUL HUMAN
CIVILIZATION MUST CONVINCE US,
ONE HUMAN AT A TIME,