Conspiracy Theory — Steve Earle
What if I told you it was done with mirrors What if I showed you it was all a lie Better be careful, someone might hear ya The walls have ears and the sky has eyes What if I said you were only dreamin' What you wanna bet that all you gotta do Is open up your eyes and you will wake up screamin' When you realize that it's all come true
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Hush, now don't you believe it Cover your head and close your eyes Now, take it or leave it Go back to bed Now don't you cry
Half a million soldiers fly across the water One in ten are never comin' back again Fifty thousand sons who never grew to fathers Don't you ever wonder who they might have been What if you could've been there on that day in Dallas What if you could wrestle back the hands of time Maybe somethin' could've been done in Memphis We wouldn't be livin' in a dream that's died
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Go on and tell yourself again there are no secrets Go on and tell yourself that you don't want to know It's best that you believe that you don't hear the footsteps That follow you around no matter where you go Maybe you were thinkin' that it didn't matter Maybe you believed nobody else would care But once you've added every little lie together You finally find the truth was always waiting there
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