How Can You Say That Lyrics - Edwin Mccain

The air that you breathe it must be poison 

And you're dressed up in your best disguise 

I don't want to hear what you have to say 

It's there in your eyes when you look away 

These beautiful words are turning into lies 

Chorus: 

How can you say that to me 

The light that still shines is just an illusion 

Just a memory from a burned out star 

Its promise has come from so far away 

It's fighting through sadness and years of decay 

And it's a wonder it ever made it this far 

(Chorus) 

After all of those secrets you let me believe 

There's no rose petal air, there's just thorns when I breathe 

How can you say that 

It's not this silence that screams in my mind 

Each day I feel like I'm falling behind 

Living in shadows, still getting burned 

When will I ever learn 

(Chorus) 

After all those secrets you let me believe 

There's no rose petal air, there's just thorns when I breathe 

How can you say that to me