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Truth

from Medium by Robin Tymm

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It's another Tuesday night, another scarce half-empty bar
A man gets up on stage to play a battered steel guitar
He sang out every song like he had lived out every line
And I watched and wondered how he touched a hardened heart like mine

He covered tunes I must’ve heard a hundred times before
But he did them in a way I wished he stayed and played some more
As he was packing up to go I asked to buy that man a beer
I want to know his secret, how’d he make it sound so sincere

CHORUS
I can’t sing it if I don’t mean every word
‘Cause you might leave here disbelieving what you’ve heard
I can’t fake it or I might not make it through
So please believe me ‘cause I’m singing you the truth

When it was my turn to perform I could’ve sworn the man was gone
But I saw him standing by the door as I was starting my first song
I thought of every verse and every chorus, every rhyme
And how to make those twenty people in the bar really feel this song was mine

CHORUS
I can’t sing it if I don’t mean every word
‘Cause they might leave here disbelieving what they’ve heard
I can’t fake it or I might not make it through
So please believe me ‘cause I’m singing you the truth

BRIDGE
What’s a song worth if it don’t come from the heart?
It’s a fine line ‘tween false and genuine, can you tell the two apart?
What’s a song worth if it don’t come from deep inside
I won’t stand up here before you if I think you think I’ve lied

CHORUS
I can’t sing it if I don’t mean every word
‘Cause you might leave here disbelieving what you’ve heard
I can’t fake it or I might not make it through
So please believe me ‘cause I’m singing you the truth

© 2015 Robin Tymm
19th September 2015

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from Medium, released May 7, 2016
All instruments : Robin Tymm
Except : Miles Brough - harmony vocals

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