No Right to the Truth

It's not that you weren't there It's that you were there under false pretenses Motivated by something kept secret Smiling for different reasons You always with an ace up your sleeve And by avoiding the truth you also avoided the lie You don't really have to lie to children They have no right to the truth anyway So silence is enough To answer most questions See that's what still gets me now How long the secret stayed in your head It ends up that we reveal ourselves without knowing it If someone's watching us closely they can spot it That's how I figured you out man I let you slip up A thousand times But every victory just made me weaker The more truth I got the heavier my head became Till I was walking around like you Almost falling over 'cause my head was full of concrete excuses