I can tell when you're telling lies
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I can see it in your smiling eyes
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I can't help when you're telling lies
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I can see it in your lack of surprise
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I can see just where the truth doesn't lie
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Watching you cut through the bind that ties
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Once upon a time a story with a happy end
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But that's all in the past now, it's all around the bend
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You can't appease me now, those hopeless things you send
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And you can't please me now and we can't start again
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There's too much history, and no clean sheets
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When I get to hear his story, it puts my feet to sleep
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It's all romantic nothing about a heart in a rage
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Murdered by some cartoon villain who ripped out the last page
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Happy ever after, a prince apparent and his bride
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All his disarming charm and her unfaithful side
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He's scouting for success and she's his girl guide
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The day the die was cast, it was the day I died
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And now your hips are up for grabs and now the chips are down
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I could be jetting with the set instead of with this clown
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You want it to be unabridged, all bridges should be burnt
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Sometimes you must recross them, that's something you never learnt
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There are some tricks you can't pull
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I mean the wool that is
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Over my eyes
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That's what happens when lookng for love
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Becomes a game of I Spy
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I know you're combing someone's hair, or someone's soothing you
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A lie may well fool someone else but it tells the truth
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About you to you
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I Can Tell (When You're Telling Lies)
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| John Wesley Harding |
