Chris Port Blog #47: Marty Gull Song #22. Don’t Lie To Me Cavatina

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Death won’t be easy

I’ll feel some pain

When I try to explain what you’ve done

That men still need to love

Every man is a son

Oh please believe me

All I can be

Is a boy I once knew

Although life’s a Catch Twenty-Two

Perhaps that will add up for you

I had to let in that pain

I couldn’t change

Couldn’t waste all my life lost in days

Gazing in at your sorrow

Staying out in the rain

So I’ve gone insane

Walking around dying slowly of cold

But the world was so beautiful

It hurt me and gave me my soul

Don't lie to me cavatina
Though truth is I think beyond you

All through life’s madness

Her sad inconstance

You broke your promise

I spoke my conscience

And as for women and as for men

I always embraced them arm’s length

Though I dreamed of a world

Where passion is kind

Those are delusions

They are the confusions

That crash into bone

The question is crushed in the rain

Why love dies in pain and alone?

Don’t lie to me cavatina

Though truth is I think beyond you
All through life’s madness

Her sad inconstance

You broke your promise

I spoke my conscience

Have I loved enough?

There’s so much more I should have tried to give this world

But please do not follow

My hollow example

It’s enough that you know

Don't Cry For Me Argentina from Evita