I Can Tell (When You're Telling Me Lies) - John Wesley Harding

I can tell when youre telling lies

I can see it in your smiling eyes

I cant help when youre telling lies

I can see it in your lack of surprise

I can see just where the truth doesnt lie

Watching you cut through the bind that ties

Once upon a time a story with a happy end

But thats all in the past now, its all around the bend

You cant appease me now, those hopeless things you send

And you cant please me now and we cant start again

Theres too much history, and no clean sheets

When I get to hear his story, it puts my feet to sleep

Its all romantic nothing about a heart in a rage

Murdered by some cartoon villain who ripped out the last page

Happy ever after, a prince apparent and his bride

All his disarming charm and her unfaithful side

Hes scouting for success and shes his girl guide

The day the die was cast, it was the day I died

And now your hips are up for grabs and now the chips are down

I could be jetting with the set instead of with this clown

You want it to be unabridged, all bridges should be burnt

Sometimes you must recross them, thats something you never learnt

There are some tricks you cant pull

I mean the wool that is Over my eyes

Thats what happens when lookng for love

Becomes a game of I spy

I know youre combing someones hair, or someones soothing you

A lie may well fool someone else but it tells the truth

About you to you