DEAR JACK,

Tonight I lied to you again.
It’s like I had to. You’re just that pretty, and your spirit’s oh so strong.
I know it was wrong.
I’m letting you live out a life, where I’m still well in your eyes.
But those were all lies.
I’ve burned myself now I feel alive. I’m hiding from you. The truth, me from you.
It’s just what I do.
Don’t just lie there again. Don’t let me leave you lying there like you’ve been. (Like you’ve been.)
Don’t sit there and grin. Don’t sit there and grin.
I’ve lied to you again. Lied to you again.

I tell untruths for the feeling.
I’m safe now. It’s like I’m safe now.
Letting you in is surely death when:
It’s not the same for you. I can’t tell you the truth.

Tonight I lied to you again.
I feel my face change. But you don’t see it; nothing you’d ever know.
It cannot be so.
I gave you no truth. What I told you on the phone is what you wanted to hear.
Phone to your ear.
Please let me tell you. I push for the truth but it’s stuck in my mouth.
I’ll perjure myself.
And tell you the only love I have is that of a friend’s. It’s not of a boy who’s love-struck.
And this is my luck. This is no good luck.
I’ve lied to you again. Lied to you again.

I tell untruths for the feeling.
I’m safe now. It’s like I’m safe now.
Letting you in is surely death when:
It’s not the same for you. I can’t tell you the truth.

Let’s pretend I’m not in love for this evening.
Blah blah blah, it means nothing.
You didn’t hear me out at all; weren’t listening
To my adoring sighs. Now all you’ll hear are lies.


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