"Telling Lies" lyrics

Why are we building fences?

Why are we building walls?

There’s been so little time for laughing

Now what’s mine’s no longer yours

ANd we sleep, not touching, with a space

Much bigger than it ever was before

Now you keep quiet far too often

WHen you speak you criticise

There used to be a time for laughing

ANd a softness in your eyes

Now there’s a cold light living there

I’m finding you so hard to recognise

SO come on lets just have it out

You need to tell me its worth saving

Maybe there’s a way to try

SOme sort of rearranging

Or maybe all these years together

We were only ever telling lies?

We’ve been struggling with shadows

Where there used to be some light

We’ve been drowning and not waving

We can’t seem to get it right

And somewhere there’s a dying flame

We’re trying far too hard to reignite