Kingdom of the Lie [Song & Lyrics]

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Lyrics: She was alone

On a corner, looking blind with a cane

in some home made clothes

She froze

When I looked her way

Like her face was stone

She said, "oh

I can feel you looking at me thinking

she’s at a painful low”

She spoke

With a tone like a river from a maple

“Maybe my eyes are blind," she said

Caught up in her mind, she said

"All you see is minuses

And all I feel is hope

So hear now where the silence was

I’ll tell you what blindness does

And you tell me, the blinded one

Who can see the glow?”

In everything the rich man was

I saw his blisters and cuts

And the whispers he trusted

Were kissing on him, I

Saw him sinning in them church pews

The devil sewed his church shoes

Serenade your worth you’re

Addicted to your love

And in everything the rich man did

He brought his rich man kid

He said now, sit down listen

Follow me and be my son

Keep aligned

See what’s mine

And be blind to what won’t suffocate our bottom line

And "maybe my life’s a lie," he’d think

Caught up in his mind, he’d think, no sleepin’,

No, the lion’s creepin’

Every night he’d try

"Maybe my life’s a lie," he’d joke

"And all this apple pie is sulfur

And all I got in life is owed

To the kingdom of the lie"

But then the rich man’s son

Didn’t want his rich man blood

He ran like the wind to

A witch whose home was made of mud

He said "Can you take the sins out of my hands?

My gold is puss that curdled up

Inside my father’s skull when he made coal

Out of his damage"

So she made the rich son nothing

Waved her hand, hummed something

Then his stomach went hungry

And from that gutter came his flood

He cried, and poured cheap vodka from his coat

When it dripped down his knuckles, he licked up

what drops became gold to his eye, suffering alone

And "maybe my life’s a lie," he’d think

Caught up in his mind, he’d think, no sleepin’,

No, the lion’s creepin’

Every night he’d try

"Maybe my life’s a lie," he’d joke

And all that apple pie was home

And all I got in life is owed

To the kingdom of the lie

Then, like a poor man does

He fed his blisters and cuts

And the whispers he trusted

Were kissing on his mind

He had a poor man’s son

Who never had a door man come

Who never saw his old man was

Once the silver-spooned type

And in all the son did he felt no cost of living

And any time he sinned he felt, mm, God’s forgiving

And every day was simple, ooh, no cause for wishin’

And he found a wife to kiss and share this honor with him

They had a daughter, called her Grace

He said, "my love, my little love

I hope you see the glow that others make nothing of

I hope you see past the struggles of your hand

And beyond this world of castles,

They’re just coffins made of sand - and to

Everything we are

We got no deed to claim no land

But our ghosts are filled with gold

We aren’t beholden to no man

All our blankets are old

But we are new under the strands

That wove us to our bones

Our light glows between our candles

But maybe your life’s a lie, you’ll think

Caught up in your mind, you’ll think, no sleepin’

No, the lion’s creepin’

Every night you try

And maybe your life’s a lie, you’ll joke

But know that where am I - is home so

Come back any time you’re stole

By the kingdom of the lie"

Come back any time you’re stole

By the kingdom of the -

"And know our little light is home

in this kingdom of the lie"