Burnett T-bone The Wild Truth Lyrics

The Wild Truth Lyrics

you never said it was a bed of roses

 but you never said it was a bed of nails

 you never told me 'bout the rubber hoses

 or how unsteady were the justice scales

 

           i need the wild truth

 

 on the street there are a billion people

 they got no love, they got no hope

 they got no youth, they got no beauty

 they're looking backwards through a telescope

 

           they need the wild truth

 

      whatever happened to the man walking down the street

      with his hands in his pockets whistling a tune?

      science fiction and nostalgia have become the same thing

 

      i don't know how to make any choices anymore i mean, 

      who do i vote for? i get the feeling that as soon as

      something appears in the paper it ceases to be true

 

      i have to meet the man who can crack this world of justice

      like a safe.  someone with the courage to allow room for

      good things to run wild

 

           into the wild truth

 

 we don't need no voodoo stories 

 from no magic president

 who tries to make a dream a fait accompli

 by using phantoms for his evidence

 

           we need the wild truth

 

 i tell a hundred thousand lies that twist me

 into the noise where i hide my sin

 my shame and scandal pull me down and kiss me

 i can't live a life that might have been

 

           i need the wild truth

 

      are we supposed to take all this greed and fear and hatred

      seriously?  it's like watching dust settle it never changes

      it's too consistent

      

      mercy is not consistent it's like the wind 

      it goes where it will. mercy is comic, and its the only

      thing worth taking seriously

 

           i need the wild truth