Try to rewrite your life
And never look back
Go to fantasyland
To find a new track
Always looking for a shortcut
And a new type of scam
You could pay off all your bills
If you met a stupid man
Such a crazy crazy girl
In your dreamy dreamy world
Try to rewire your brain
But it always snaps back
When you're pretending away
A big ole pile of crap
Every liar knows the truth
That's how you build your lies
You multiply your troubles
When you believe your disguise
Such a crazy crazy girl
In your dreamy dreamy world
by Richard W. Bray
Telling your life story
Leaving out the facts
Time travels sideways
Turkeys go quack
Nothing that happens
Is ever your fault
Look inside a mirror
See who you're not
Crazy as a hound dog
With a pigeon up its ass
Fantasize a future
Wish away the past
Nothing that happens
Is ever your fault
Look inside a mirror
See who you're not
Blood on all your garments
Dripping from your hand
But you never stop saying
You're an innocent man
Nothing that happens
Is ever your fault
Look inside a mirror
See who you're not
By Richard W. Bray
My doctor said "Your thinking stinks
You're sick inside from all them drinks
You need to fix what's in your head
Or else you're gonna wind up dead"
Fragrant thinking
Keeping people sane
Try to stay happy
But don't deny the pain
Fragrant thinking
You're gonna make mistakes
Don't emphasize the negative
And give yourself a break
Fragrant thinking
Focus on yourself
Don't waste your time obsessing
About everybody else
Fragrant thinking
Serenity Prayer
Change the things you can
Who said life was fair?
Now I filter everything
All the stuff I say and think
Eliminating all the shit
That don't serve me no benefit
by Richard W. Bray
I read a lot of books
About psychology and stuff
Crammin knowledge in my head
I’ll never get enough
Tried to figure out
Why some people fall apart
Wondered if the problem’s
In the head or in the heart
The answer is so simple
And amazy
If you don’t tell yourself the truth
You’ll go crazy
Deception is a poison
It destroys and complicates
Honesty alleviates
It cures and it regenerates
Living all those lies
Is gonna rot your loving soul
Heal your wounded heart
And let yourself be whole
The answer is so simple
And amazy
If you don’t tell yourself the truth
You’ll go crazy
"To see what's right in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
–George OrwellWhen you don't wanna know
What you know
It takes a massive toll
It'll singe your living soul
When you don't wanna know
What you know
The fables that you tell
The fiction that you sell
When you don't wanna know
What you know
What people say and do
What's right in front of you
When you don't wanna know
What you know
His face is full of doom
He smells like cheap perfume
When you don't wanna know
What you knowWhen you don't wanna know
What you knowWhen you don't wanna know
What you know
by Richard W. Bray
Telling more lies
To prove you aren't a liar
Committing arson
To cover up a fire
Pretending away
Facts that burn your soul
Pretending away
Truth that takes a toll
Festering lilies
Troubles grow like weeds
Caress and fondle
The monsters that you feed
Pretending away
The pain and the smell
Pretending away
The things you never tell
Cardboard illusions
Menageries of glass
Forsaken future
Imaginary past
Pretending away
What everybody sees
Pretending away
Your own reality
by Richard W. Bray
The thing that's always there
In the alcoves of your mind
The thing that makes you lie
The thing that makes you blind
The thing you never mention
When you try and talk sense
Gossip, movies, politics
And current events
The thing that's deep below
And always at the surface
The ghost in the attic
The phantom in the furnace
Try and stay busy
Avoid, disrupt, deny
Wash your brain with booze
It never leaves your side
by Richard W. Bray
You can build yourself a mansion
On a big ole pile of sand
You can fabricate a future
In never never land
You can look inside a mirror
And see a fantasy
You can dream away your future
On what's never gonna be
Can't get from Wichita to Omaha
If you're stuck in Timbuktu
The things you did are on the way
To things you're gonna do
You can make believe you're someone else
And dream a happy dream
But being who you wanna be
Starts with coming clean
You can wake up every morning
And tell yourself a lie
You can repeat it and repeat it
Until the day you die
You can keep on treading water
And never wonder why
Or you can grab life by the collar
And look it in the eye
Can't get from Wichita to Omaha
If you're stuck in Timbuktu
The things you did are on the way
To things you're gonna do
You can make believe you're someone else
And dream a happy dream
But being who you wanna be
Starts with coming clean
by Richard W. Bray
Escape hatch
In the portals of my mind
Hiding with the lies
That take up all my time
Escape hatch
Nowhere else to go
Putting on a mask
Putting on a show
Escape hatch
Can't avoid my brain
The truth is in the task
The truth is in the pain
Escape hatch
Time to shut the door
Time to cut the con
I don't need it anymore
by Richard W. Bray
It’s pretty easy to tell when someone is lying to themself.* But you can never know another person’s truth. And discovering your own truth is an enormous task.
The truth that looks you in the eye
“No reason why this has to hurt”
Tell yourself another lie
Compare yourself to other guys
“My loser friends are so inert”
The truth that looks you in the eye
Bewildered every time you cry
“I’m self-aware – I’m so alert”
Tell yourself another lie
Jump off a bridge – expect to fly
“Only fools return to dirt?”
The truth that looks you in the eye
Deception is your alibi
“I’m guiltless, honest and overt”
Tell yourself another lie
Dismiss your actions with a sigh
“I never aimed to disconcert”
The truth that looks you in the eye
Tell yourself another lie
by Richard W. Bray
*For example, when someone says I don’t care, it usually means they care a lot.
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