Lyrics
- Between The Lines
Don't tell me everything is fine
I can read between the lines
That mark the difference, emphasise significance
I always thought you felt this way
But I was told that you were happy
With the arrowing of life into a narrow thing
Whatever happened to the dreams
Edges frayed on twisted seams
Before the compromise, torn to shreds and tossed aside
A moment’s loss of self-belief
You wore his heart upon your sleeve
And you were trivialised, homogenised and satisfied
When broken hearts are left behind
Unforgiving like the helplessness that labelled you,
Questioned and disabled you.
To something else you might belong
If it occurred he could be wrong,
About your ignorance, selfishness, indifference
You let the sunshine dry your tears
The wasted days, the empty years
Have now desensitised, neutralised and traumatised
You say the dust got in your eyes
You hardly recognise your lies
The way you fictionalise, circumvent, legitimise
You fear the rage behind his eyes, countless promises denied
Explanation still supplied, like all the world can be denied
I know - where can you go to be alone?
Don't tell me everything is fine
I can read between the lines
And it drives you mad, and it makes you sad
And it ends up all the life you know. All you'll ever know
The falling rain in summer skies
Unremitting like the lies that fall
So gracefully, eloquent and tactfully
And you believe them every time
Unquestioned visions in your mind
Recalled so gratefully, because you said: He promised me.
