• Song:

    Pop Lie

  • Artist:

    Okkervil River

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    all sweetly sung and succinctly stated
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    words and music he calculated
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     to  make you sing along
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     with your stereo on as you stand in shorts on your lawn

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     get completely incorporated
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     by some couple who consummated
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     all their love by the dawn
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   a falling star wished upon that flashed in the sky and was gone

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     and mouths wet      and blonde hair braided
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     by the back room the kids all waited
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     to meet the man in bright green
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   who had dreamed up the dream that they wrecked their hearts upon

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he?s the liar who lied in his pop song
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and you?re lying when you sing along
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yes you?re lying when you sing along


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     so here?s the car seat so cruelly weighted
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     and here?s to faces already faded
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  at the end of a day
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     when they just threw away the only good thing that they owned
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and now they?re    pinned down      and strangula---ted
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    at the food court the float?s inflated
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    people line up to see
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        the man who dreamed up the dream that they wrecked their hearts upon

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he?s the liar who lied in his pop song
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the liar who lied in his pop song
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and you?re lying when you sing along,
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oh yeah you?re lying when you sing along

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     week by week it climbs up and climbs on
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and we?re feeling all right but we know it?s all wrong
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     I?m ashamed to admit that I cannot resist
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what I wish were the truth but it?s not
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and I truly believe we?re not strong
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and we?ll sing until our voices are gone
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and then sink beneath the manicured lawn

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     This is respectfully dedicated
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     to the woman who concentrated
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     all of her love to find
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     that she had wasted it on the liar who lied in this song
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