Secrets and Lies Lyrics

SECRETS AND LIES

My mother once told me she'd lived with a man

Who ran out on his wife who didn't understand

He kept her a secret the baby and all

There were so many secrets and lies

My dad scraped a life picking coal from the dirt

A good-looking boy with the girls he did flirt

Sold jars for a penny stashed his wealth in a ditch

Told his own mother secrets and lies

Secrets and lies secrets and lies

I can see right through your clever disguise

Tell me no secrets I'll tell you no lies

I'm so sick of your false alibis

My brother he told me he went off to war

To fight the great fight and give aid to the poor

He never left home he ran black market stalls

He kept so many secrets and lies

My sister was kissed by a deep-thinking man

He liked Nietzsche and Proust and Bob Dylan's The Band

One day he ran off with a man with a plan

Full of too many secrets and lies

Secrets and lies secrets and lies

I can see right through your clever disguise

Tell me no secrets I'll tell you no lies

I'm so sick of your false alibis

My lover he wooed me with poems and wine

With black burning eyes and a profile so fine

He said he would love me 'till death for all time

I was blind to his secrets and lies

Secrets and lies secrets and lies

I can see right through your clever disguise

Tell me no secrets I'll tell you no lies

I'm so sick of your false alibis

And now I am older I need to confess

You think that you know me but nevertheless

In my songs I tell all about lovers and friends

And a life full of secrets and lies

Secrets and lies secrets and lies

I can see right through your clever disguise

Tell me no secrets I'll tell you no lies

That's the end of these false alibis

There'll be no more secrets and lies