Let The Truth Sting - David Gray

The hour is out of joint 
Black sun has risen 
And the river of words 
Is flowing on through 
The cages of tradition 
They're handing out emptiness 
We'll take it, cos it's given 
Free with this plastic innocence 
And these standards of living 

Questions, lighted questions 
Burnin' holes into my head 
Hanging like shadows o'er 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 tryin' 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 every day 
Or 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 in 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 
As it opens like a flower 
And the day starts to rust 
Feeling time pound 
Like a silent hammer 
On this empire of dust 
And I'm thinking about 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