Liar - Dar Williams

Out where the children all get their own rooms

Where they stir coffee with old silver spoons in their mansions

There’s a girl that the whole town can see

Doesn’t fit in but they all know that she understands them

And they wanna know where the kid came from

She won’t tell anyone

But they know she’s a liar

That’s what they know she’s a liar

That’s what they know

You do what you have to do

Maybe you can be a liar too

There’s a school where she goes every day

Everything that you could want if you pay

You can find there

She came in with a dream and a plan

Learned how to use movie cameras

And started to shine there

And they wanna know where the kid came from

She won’t tell anyone

But they know she’s a liar

That’s what they know she’s a liar

That’s what they know

And if she had to

She could turn the camera right on you

As for the teachers they all knew her crime

When she was every day always on time

They saw through her

She took the train from the city at dawn

Broke through the woods and she crept through the lawns

To her future

So maybe they know where the kid came from

They won’t tell anyone

And they know she’s a liar

That’s what they know she’s a liar

Just because she reached higher

They are so proud of their liar

They are so proud

You do what you have to

Maybe you can be a liar too