Convenient Lies

Tell me what you want from me
And I will give it twice over
Just to get the chance to hold you closer if you agree

Have I said too much? Or maybe not enough
To justify the lies, well baby maybe I'm just out of touch?

Can I be honest? Even for a minute
As it slips between the creases of my fabricated responses?

See lately I’ve been feeling down
And really sweetie it’s only been when you’ve come slithering around

Is that what you want to hear?
Is that what you want to hear?

So, tell me that you’ll change Enough to make it worth the patience;
Stay complacent and remain in this rotting space

Your love is just an alibi
Convenient lies you tell yourself pretending you are not the driver of our demise

Can you be honest?
Would kill you just to spill the contents of your mind without all the parallel falseness?

See lately I’ve been feeling down
And really sweetie it’s only been when you’ve come slithering around

Is that what you want to hear?
Is that what you want to hear?