Pop Lie

All sweetly sung and succinctly stated

Words and music you calculated

To make you sing along

With your stereo on

As you stand in your shorts on your lawn

Get completely incorporated

By some couple who consummated

Their first love by the dawn

A falling star wished upon

And flashed in the sky and was gone

And that's when ...*

By the back room, the kids all waited

To meet the man in bright green

Who had dreamed up the dream that

they rest their hearts upon

He's the liar who lied in his pop song

And you're lying when you sing along

And you're lying when you sing along

So, here's the car seat, so cruelly weighted

And here's the faces already faded

At the end of the day

When they just threw away

the only good thing that they owned

And now they're ...*

But at the food court, the float's inflated

People line up to see the man

who dreamed up the dream that

they rest their hearts upon

He's the liar who lied in his pop song

The liar who lied in his pop song

And you're lying when you sing along

Oh yeah, you're lying when you sing along

Week by week, it climbs up and comes on

And we're feeling alright, though we know it's all wrong

I'm ashamed to admit that

I can't help resist what I wished was the truth,

but it's not

And I truly believe we're not strong

And we'll sing til our voices are gone

And ...*

This is respectfully dedicated

To the woman who concentrated

All of her love to find

That she'd wasted it on

The liar who lied in this song