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Why Do I Lie When I Sing (remastered for "Best of Tobin Mueller, Vol. 4")
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AUSFÜHRENDE KÜNSTLER:INNEN
Tobin Mueller
Tobin Mueller
Stimme und Gesang
KOMPOSITION UND LIEDTEXT
Tobin Mueller
Tobin Mueller
Songwriter:in
PRODUKTION UND TECHNIK
Tobin Mueller
Tobin Mueller
Ausführende:r Produzent:in
Kenny Cash
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Mastering-Ingenieur:in

Lyrics

Why do I lie when I sing?
What is it that music brings?
Hidden in rhyme, all the the things
The jagged lines that still sting
Polished a clean
All the bright melodies
Why do I lie to myself?
Why won't I try to simply tell it?
It's not that I don't believe
It's just that I don't seem to need to anymore
It's not that I want to be free of it
It's just that I can't
Can't recall what the truth is
Can't recall
So I sing
It's not that I won't believe
Sometimes it's caught on the tip of my tongue
It's not that I need to be free of it
It's just that I can't
Don't remind me
Don't remind me
Don't remind me of all I've done wrong, no
Don't remind me
Don't remind me
I have not forgotten that
I have not forgotten that
I have not forgotten that
I have not forgotten that
No, I have not forgotten that
Standing here at the mirror
Like a ghost at the door
I used to question
I used to ask
I used to bother
I used to look between the masks
It's not that I don't believe
It's just that I don't seem to need to anymore
It's not that I want to be free of it
It's just that I can't
I've tried to capture it all on paper
I've crumpled all of it up and thrown it away
The trash man comes tomorrow anyway
He'll haul it away
It's not that I don't believe
Haul it away
It's that I don't seem to need to anymore
Haul it away
It's not that I want to be free of it
Haul it away
Except when I sing
Written by: Tobin Mueller

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