13) TRUTH IS A HARD LINE

Don’t shoot the messenger, the saying goes,
Well I really get it, lord knows,
Cause I’ve been put here, or so it seems,
To spread bad news

I apologise for my sad style
I’ve been this way for quite a while
And you know that this line of work
Ain’t something that you choose

Truth is a hard line
And if you don’t want to listen,
Well that’s just fine,
I’ll keep singing the words
As they come down to me
And I can try to refine,
But it ain’t up to me to define,
I just tell it like I see it,
And then I set it free,

The truth is ugly, I’m well aware,
And I am stuck here and forced to stare
It in the eye, and it makes me cry
More often than not,

And I know people would rather dance
To some up-tempo song of romance
And I know all too well
That those are songs that sell,

Truth is a hard line....

You know that I don’t mean to make you choke,
But how can we fix it, if we don’t know it’s broke
And that’s exactly, that’s exactly where I fit in,
Cause if you sing with me,
We might undo some of this misery,
We might find courage,
And spark compassion
That lies within

Truth is a hard line,
And we should always listen
Even though it’s trying,
Cause we have got to sing the words
As they come down our way,
I hope you understand
That if we bury our heads deep in the sand,
The sad things that I sing about
Will never go away,

So let me sing my sad songs,
Sad songs are ok.