"Only The Truth" lyrics

Followed you down into the park
The sky blue-black in the growing dark
You talk, and I despair

It's not my place to say anything
If I did you'd still go back to him
Wind lifts in your hair

The older I get, the more tired I am
If there's anything I want to be saying now, it's only the truth
Laid out dirty, slumped in these lines
Never as clean and pure as the lie
You're so drawn to
I don't blame you

He tried to tell you who you were
So he could tell you what you deserve
It was the same for me too
That kind of love blots out the light
It's so hungry that kind of lie
To burn right through
All those old things you knew were right
Like an old dishrag stained with your life
Only the truth
Doesn't care if you care, all it is ever is is there
Open to you
Only just true

We walked up on the lip of the hill
Where before us, city lights fill the line of the view
I saw through, the high black towers
The grid of streets that buried a river
Snaking wet curves deep under ground

Look around - the city built up high, on shifting sands, built to deny
Only the truth
Underneath it all, a foundation of mud, unstable, pulsing like blood
Only the truth
Can't be bought, can't be sold
We all had learned to get by on another kind of gold
Unnoticed, ugly, dirty, strange, impermanent and plain
Only the truth
Doesn't care if you care
It's better to just leave it there
Nothing to say, nothing to see here