Let The Truth Sting Lyrics - A Century Ends - 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, 'cause 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 rigamarole 

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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 

Photos 

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 'bout 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 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