Have you ever considered
The reasons why
People shun the truth
And tell a lie?
Number one on the list,
This will burst no bubble,
We lie to keep
Ourselves out of trouble.
We lie out of necessity;
We lie out of greed.
We lie to get
What we want and need.
We also lie
Just to entertain;
To keep a conversation
From becoming quite plain. | We lie to aggress;
We do it as tricks.
Lies can really get others
Into a fix.
We lie to be kind,
When we use tact,
To protect another
From an unpleasant fact.
But the saddest of lies
Would have to be
The lies that we tell
Out of inferiority.
These lies reflect the pain
That we're not up to snuff,
And that what we are
Is just not good enough. |
