Secrets Of A Salesman Lyrics - Rocky Votolato

These baby secrets have grown into children 

Through dirty adolescence and now into manhood 

I locked the basement door and broke off the skeleton key 

But it made no difference still they travel with me 

Even though I killed them, they haunt me and they help me 

Remember the lies in the shadows, the practiced charades 

My hands are an axe chopping at the roots 

Of the only family tree that could ever bear fruit 

To cripple you to make sure that you never reproduce 

Another heart of lies or house of haunted rooms 

The arrow is thrown into your back 

Nothing has ever been so distant and weak 

Dreaded words whispered under her breath 

"You're just like your father" 

Your ocean is a drop of water 

Tightly woven wire mesh beneath the broken salesman 

As he's rolling down the conveyor belt 

The product is almost ready to be shipped out the door 

Out into the world to make a living 

Selling plastic faces to everyone who needs 'em 

To forget the lies in the shadows, the practiced charades 

The enemy will make sure the tie's on straight 

It's always best to make an impression of wealth 

No matter how much hatred and debt is boiling beneath the surface 

"I love you" spills like vomit from her lips 

The arrow is thrown into your back 

Nothing has ever been so distant and weak 

The dreaded words whispered under her breath 

"You're just like your father" 

Your ocean is a drop of water 

I locked the basement doors and broke off the skeleton key 

Forget the lies in the shadows, don't forget me