Your words dissolve like pills in my drink
Don’t heal a thing, just slow the sink
I swallow every half-truth clean
Like I don’t know what you mean
You hold me like it’s leased, not owned
Something warm but overthrown
Say my name like it might stay
Then back away before the day
[Pre-Chorus]
Truth is heavy, lies are light
I can carry those all night
If love’s just a borrowed sound
Let it play till it drowns out
[Chorus - looped]
Tell me lies, tell me lies
I don’t care if it’s true tonight
Say you’re mine, say you’re mine
Even if it dies in the light
I don’t need proof, I need rest
I don’t need more, I need less
So I fold my doubts real neat
Leave ’em on the floor with my jeans
Morning always ruins us
Sunlight’s such a fucking snitch
So I close my eyes at two-oh-one
And choose the dark I’m in
[Chorus - looped]
Tell me lies, tell me lies
I don’t care if it’s true tonight
Say you’re mine, say you’re mine
Even if it dies in the light
[Bridge]
If you meant it, I’d be gone
If you lied, I could hold on
So don’t confess, don’t make it real
Just tell me what I wanna feel
[Final Chorus - strip the drums - last line trails off and echos]
Tell me lies… tell me lies…
Say it slow, don’t make me cry
Just tonight… just tonight…
Let the truth wait till the light