lies

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

We whisper silk secrets in candlelight

Thinking soft words might make it alright

You said I did it to protect you

But the unknowing stung worse than the truth

I watched you build a house of glass

Each untruth a brick, each omission a mask

And though you smiled to spare the pain

I saw the spawn clouds that eventually came

We bleed from wounds we never see

Until one day the mirror looks like grief

Lies, like ivy crawling slow

Through trust, through time, through bone and soul

You meant no harm but harm still came

Disguised in mercy, wrapped in shame

And love, oh love, can't breathe in doubt

The truth was trying to claw its way out

But they always, always come out

Lies

You held your tongue like a loaded gun

Afraid of what might be seen in the sun

But shadows bloomed where truth should've grown

And even roses can rot from below

I told myself they meant it well

But heaven knows I couldn't tell

Where love had gone or who I was

When honesty turned into dust

We bleed from wounds we never see

Until one day the mirror looks like grief

Lies, like ivy crawling slow

Through trust, through time, through bone and soul

You meant no harm but harm still came

Disguised in mercy, wrapped in shame

And love, oh love, can't breathe in doubt

The truth was trying to claw its way out

But they always, always come out

Lies

You think a lie will save the day

But sometimes silence teaches hearts to stray

No peace in sleep, no rest in dreams

When nothing's ever what it seems

Trust frayed, intimacy gone

Friendship faded, love withdrawn

Self-worth cracked, self-love none

Peace a ghost that never moves on

All from lies...

Lies, like ivy take their toll