Tomorrow’s Lies​ 

 

Some whispers will unravel settling nestled in the dust​

Like the hidden implications borne from trusting our mistrust

In the thunder of the silence and the silence in the roar

Tomorrows moments lie in wait while today’s rush out the door

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Let this be the final warning

Let this be the parting shot

Our deceit will spin the web

With false pretense and  twisted thought

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As the sun goes down and darkness paints itself across the skies

The promises we made today become tomorrow’s lies

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I have learned to turn a blind eye till the blindness holds its sway

Yet my thoughts cannot be deafened and from them I cannot stray

From the numbness of the conscience to the crispness of the pain

I choose to fall to pieces to rebuild myself again

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Let this be the final warning

Let this be the parting shot

Our deceit will spin the web

For it’s there we shall be caught

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As the sun goes down and darkness paints itself across the skies

The promises we made today become tomorrow’s lies

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There’s a line of blackened shadows whose lives we’ve yet to grieve

Once labeled disbelievers now they’ve nothing to believe

So they stand with hollow gazes and refrain from taking breaths

With no meaning to their lives and no mourning to their deaths

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Let this be the grand finale

Let this be the final scene

Will the dirt of our deceit

Compel us ever to come clean

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The heart may still it’s flutter but the promise never dies

Though the truths we spoke today may well become tomorrow’s lies

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God rest the souls of sinners in their shackles and restraints

Once absolution’s granted they’re as pure as any saints

We can wash away the misdeeds and misspoken words of wrath

And lay waste to any guilt we might encounter on our path

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Let this be your greatest lesson

Let this be your guiding light

Wrong is just a word we spin

Until it spins out right

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And the rationale we substitute for reason never flies

Till the promises we make today become tomorrow’s lies

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And I will make one promise that I vow till death to keep

To stay awake just long enough to lie myself to sleep​

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                                                                     -        s. paul