I guess a generation is growing up in this world thinking that it's OK to lie. We used to have people around, role models like Abraham "Honest Abe" Lincoln or George "I Cannot Tell A Lie" Washington. Now lies are everywhere, from Bill "I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman" Clinton and George "Saddam Has Weapons Of Mass Destruction" Bush to Hwang Woo-Suk and James Frey.
Puts me in mind of a great song by the Violent Femmes:
Violent Femmes' "Lies" as on Add It Up (listen)
Well I'm reading this poem and it
it's so profound and
and I like its rhythm and I
I like its sound
by a very famous poet
no critic can criticise
and then I
I pause a moment and I start to realize it's telling
lies lies lies lies
lies lies lies lies
lies lies lies lies lies lies lies
On the motel TV I dig the evangelist
he'll tell you all about that
well he'll tell you all about this
he's preaching up a storm about the Sea of Galilee
he's mixing up the truth with something funny I start to see
he's telling
lies lies lies lies
lies lies lies lies
lies lies lies lies lies lies lies
Well I never had this problem with nobody in government
I guess I always figured they never meaned what they meant
and God help us not to be so stone surprised
when we wake up in the stars with the skies in our eyes
if we keep telling
lies lies lies lies
lies lies lies lies
lies lies lies lies lies lies lies
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