Living a Lie

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You can see yourself in the side mirror

Tossing your hair

If no one is there

Why do you care

Though I let you think there was no witness to

All of your crimes

I knew what you were:

A climber who climbs

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I'm living a lie

You're living it too

Cause I live it with you

I'm living a lie

A lie I can't tell

So we wait for a crack in the shell

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No one bears a grudge like a boy genius

Just past his prime

Gilding his cage

One bar at a time

For every open arm there's a cold shoulder

Waiting to turn

People to blame

Bridges to burn

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I'm living a lie

You're living it too

Cause I live it with you

I'm living a lie

A lie I can't tell

So we wait for a crack in the shell

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A girl comes around at a time when your ground

Is as shaky as leaves on a tree

Creating for you a persona or two

Or an out-and-out mythology

Now there's too many cooks but you like how it looks

When they're bowing and calling you