How each of us decides
I've never been sure
The part we play
The way we are
How each of us denies any other way in the world
Why each of us must choose
I've never understood
One special friend
One true love
Why each of us must lose everyone else in the world

However unsure
However unwise
Day after day play out our lives
However confused
Pretending to know to the end

But this isn't truth this isn't right
This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real
This is a lie

How each of us believes
I've never really known
In heaven unseen and hell unknown
How each of us dreams to understand anything at all
Why each of us decides
I've never been sure
The part we take
The way we are
Why each of us denies every other way in the world

However unsure
However unwise
Day after day play out our lives
However confused
Pretending to know to the end

But this isn't truth this isn't right
This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real
This is a lie
This isn't truth this isn't right
This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real
This is a lie


Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by Mellow_Harsher

This Is a Lie Lyrics as written by Perry Bamonte Jason Toop Cooper

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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  • +4
    General Commentthis always reminds me of the Edgar Allen Poe's poem 'a dream within a dream'

    All that we see or seem
    Is but a dream within a dream.

    makes me think of relationships that arent/dont work but people stay with them...

    why each of us must choose
    I've never understood
    one special friend
    one true love
    why each of us must lose everyone else in the world

    while also addressing the greater grasp of life we (think) we have...

    however unsure
    however unwise
    day after day we play out our lives
    however confused
    pretending to know to the end

    and

    how each of us believes
    I've never really known
    in heaven unseen and hell unknown
    how each of us dreams to understand anything at all
    grenon December 26, 2004   Link

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