So What If I Lie Lyrics

Been reading guys like Kerouac and Baldwin

Wondering how you get a life so grand

Wondering when adventure will come calling

So I can toughen up my hands and be a man

But I had a thought at 2 p.m. this morning

Waking with day high above my head

What if all these stories are just stories?

Bits from their own lives, all kind of boring

Mixed with shit from other guys they read?

So what if I lie?

Bend the truth a bit?

What if I lie

When my life won't cut it?

If I gotta lie, to sell a few more tickets then

You know I'm gonna lie

Once I drove a truck across the country

Loaded with some other people's trash

Three extra hours to Indiana's city, where we

Snuck out to hit the bars with tips in cash

We knew no one and had to find an angle

Thought surely budding rockstars can get laid!

We spewed some shit about a fancy label

Friends and drinks collected at our table, and we

Disappeared into the night we made

So what if I lie?

Bend the truth a bit?

What if I lie

When my life won't cut it?

If I gotta lie, to forge a drunken friendship then

You know I'm gonna lie

Time is, oh a prism

Through which we all refract.

Just change perspective position,

And see how the light will act

So what if I lie?

Bend the truth a bit?

What if I lie

When my life won't cut it?

If I gotta lie, to sell a few more tickets then

You know I'm gonna lie