• Song:

    Maybe True Stories

  • Artist:

    Lauren Oconnell

Intro: D5

D5         A5          G5   /   D5   
I've been trying to quantify
D5          A5                  G5
All of the wrong that one can pack into a lie
D5             A5             G5          D5
And I've been trying to put on a scale
D5        A5                                    G5
Just how bad all of that wrong should make me feel


          B5                           A5
'Cos they told me once when I was young
     G5            D5
That liars are as liars do
           A5               D5
And if you do, it's off to Hell with you
G5                  D5
No smiling, kid, I speak the truth
           B5                                  A5
But I've a sneaking feeling they were liars too
   G5                                    D5
So logically, then, we're all hypocrites
                    B5                A5                       D5
But does it make it better or make it worse to be aware of it?


D5                A5                  G5       D5
I'm convincing myself that it's all relative
                D5                A5                 G5
And if there's a God, when He forgives, I think He must consider it
          D5           A5             G5           D5
I've been noticing confusion in the laws he made
     D5            A5                  G5 
The nature of the truth and where it bends and where it breaks


            B5                      A5
And where I twisted it to my benefit
          G5                  D5
When this man said he was in love with me
      A5                   D5
And I thought that he was dumb to be
     G5                D5
So I pretended that I was asleep
          B5                                 A5
Called it free will what he willed to believe
       G5                                  D5
And it ended, so I guess it's just as well
                   G5             A5                 D5
But that's why sometimes I think I might go to Hell


(during the bridge, just play:) G5 - D5 - G5 - D5 - B5 - A5  (2x)


      B5                                     A5
And I worry too, how I never mentioned to you
      G5                    D5
How I drove your car while you were gone
  A5                     D5
A mile with the parking brake still on
        D5                D5
'Cos it seems to me, you wait too long
    B5                                       A5     
You may as well have not meant well all along
       G5                                          D5
So I'm hoping hard if it's the thought that counts
               G5            A5                      D5 - D5
That you don't ever have to know what I think about

G5                                                       D5
And that every soul can always fit thought Heaven's door
         B5                  A5                        D5
With the weight of things it never told anyone before.
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