Gray David Let The Truth Sting Lyrics

Let The Truth Sting Lyrics

The hour is out of joint

 black sun has risen

 and the river of words

 is flowing on through

 the cages of tradition

 and they're handing out emptiness

 we'll take it cos its given

 free witht his plastic innocence

 and these standards of living

 

 Questions, lighted questions

 burning holes into my head

 hanging like shadows over the sun

 staring out like the eyes of the dead

 and sometimes my soul flickers

 as the wind of change blows cold

 over the mire of repetition

 down the corridors of rigmarole

 

 What I say, what I think

 what I put down in ink

 I'm only trying to find a way to understand

 and I mean no harm

 I'm just searching for calm

 in the storm of mankind

 

 Do you find it there

 in the sea of faces

 that drowns you everyday

 in the silence and rubble and empty spaces

 where children and rottweilers play

 is it buried in the praise

 given so cheap

 with a meaningless movement of the jaws

 in the looking glass

 that flatters you

 or the rattle of hollow applause

 

 Blind circle, moon and sun

 body willing, mind undone

 one pain ending while another begins

 lies, ruin, disease

 into wounds like these

 let the truth sting

 

 From the hub to the limit

 through the urban hollows

 out into the poles of the extreme

 to echo through the numbness

 of these godless minutes

 in the shadow of delusion's regime

 

 But here watching the night

 it opens like a flower

 the day starts to rust

 time pound like

 a silent hammer

 on this empire of dust

 and I'm thinking 'bout the bullet

 and the TV screen, the dollar and the clenched fist

 and if we're searching for peace 

 how come we still believe

 in hatred as the catalyst

 

 Through the borderline

 in front and behind

 down the road of thorns

 between the barbwire and the soul

 bitters and chains

 is all that remains

 where the wheel has rolled

 

 I feel it from the pit of my stomach

 into the ditch of my mind

 inside the chambers of my heart

 as I stare half blind

 at these walls of cardboard

 at this space that I've rented

 at your beauty that is crumbling

 though you try so hard to prevent it

 

 On and on

 body willing, mind undone

 one pain ending while another begins

 lies, ruin, disease

 into wounds like these

 let the truth sting

 let the truth sting

 let the truth sting