The Wild Truth Lyrics

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The Wild Truth Lyrics by T-Bone Burnett

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you never said it was a bed of roses 
 but you never said it was a bed of nails 
 you never told me 'bout the rubber hoses 
 or how unsteady were the justice scales 
  
           i need the wild truth 
  
 on the street there are a billion people 
 they got no love, they got no hope 
 they got no youth, they got no beauty 
 they're looking backwards through a telescope 
  
           they need the wild truth 
  
      whatever happened to the man walking down the street 
      with his hands in his pockets whistling a tune? 
      science fiction and nostalgia have become the same thing 
  
      i don't know how to make any choices anymore i mean,  
      who do i vote for? i get the feeling that as soon as 
      something appears in the paper it ceases to be true 
  
      i have to meet the man who can crack this world of justice 
      like a safe.  someone with the courage to allow room for 
      good things to run wild 
  
           into the wild truth 
  
 we don't need no voodoo stories  
 from no magic president 
 who tries to make a dream a fait accompli 
 by using phantoms for his evidence 
  
           we need the wild truth 
  
 i tell a hundred thousand lies that twist me 
 into the noise where i hide my sin 
 my shame and scandal pull me down and kiss me 
 i can't live a life that might have been 
  
           i need the wild truth 
  
      are we supposed to take all this greed and fear and hatred 
      seriously?  it's like watching dust settle it never changes 
      it's too consistent 
       
      mercy is not consistent it's like the wind  
      it goes where it will. mercy is comic, and its the only 
      thing worth taking seriously 
  
           i need the wild truth

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