I Can Tell Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

I can tell when you're telling lies 

I can see it in your smiling eyes 

I can't help when you're telling lies 

I can see it in your lack of surprise 

I can see just where the truth doesn't lie 

Watching you cut through the bind that ties 

Once upon a time a story with a happy end 

But that's all in the past now, it's all around the bend 

You can't appease me now, those hopeless things you send 

And you can't please me now and we can't start again 

There's too much history, and no clean sheets 

When I get to hear his story, it puts my feet to sleep 

It's all romantic nothing about a heart in a rage 

Murdered by some cartoon villain who ripped out the last page 

(chorus) 

Happy ever after, a prince apparent and his bride 

All his disarming charm and her unfaithful side 

He's scouting for success and she's his girl guide 

The day the die was cast, it was the day I died 

And now your hips are up for grabs and now the chips are down 

I could be jetting with the set instead of with this clown 

You want it to be unabridged, all bridges should be burnt 

Sometimes you must recross them, that's something you never learnt 

(chorus) 

There are some tricks you can't pull 

I mean the wool that is 

Over my eyes 

That's what happens when lookng for love 

Becomes a game of I spy 

I know you're combing someone's hair, or someone's soothing you 

A lie may well fool someone else but it tells the truth 

About you to you 

(chorus)