Marillion - Living With The Big Lie Lyrics
(music: marillion lyrics: steve hogarth & john helmer)It all began with the bright lightThe bright light and the noiseThe chaos of the senses and the scream of desireTouching and being touchedA million loose ends to tie upTicking of the clock and the cradle rockThe colours stand stillAnd then they move aroundComin in and out of focus upside downEmpty winter treesHow space feels love of the soft ... flowers and the skyOne fine dayThe chaos subsidesBleeds into awarenessAnd a lifetime of surpriseThe beauty of your mothers eyesThe pain when you fallYou drink it in and marvel at it allBut you never really figure it outYou get used to itThe babble of the familyAnd the dumb tvRoar of the traffic and the thunder of jetsChemicals in the waterDrugs in the foodThe heat of the kitchen and the beat of the systemThe attitude of authorityThe laws and the rulesHit me square in the face, first morning at schoolThe heroes and the zeroesThe first love of my lifeWhen to kiss and to kick and to keep your head down when theyre choosing the sidesI was never any good at itI was terrified most of the timeI never got over itI got used to itAlone in the city at seventeenWith the hollow, the lonelyThe drowning and the drownedI was made to feel worthlessThe wretched and the meanBeat me up like a weaponI cant run away from or find a way roundHoldin on, holdin onThe greed and the missilesExploding somewhere every dayHideous dark secrets under the sea and in holes in the groundThe cold wars goneThose bastardsll find us another oneTheyre here to protect you, dont you know?So get used to it get used to it!The clash of religionsThe loaded prayersInformationThe face of starvation and the state of the nationThe sense that its uselessAnd the fear to tryNot believing the leaders, the media that feeds usLiving with the big lieYou get used to it
