Don't tell me
Don't tell me
Don't tell me ten things that you know
Don't show me five you see
Don't need to hear ten things you know
Just one you believe
Under the Times Square digital quick scroll
Flickering the rearming of North Korea
I ran into your lost lover there
He said there wasn't anything he wouldn't do to come and see ya, but uh
You've taken all your belongings, your briefcase
Of beliefs safe under the ground
Posting a notice recounting the reason
You don't wish to ever be found, again
Don't tell me ten things that you know
Don't show me five you see
Don't need to hear ten things you know
Just one you believe
Don't tell me ten things that you know
Don't show me five you see
Don't need to hear ten things you know
Just one you believe
First came the papers with some marching orders
They sped the dollars down the wire
You put the nails in your coffin when they penned it all to law, fine -
Then put the coffin on a ship you set fire to but
When was the last time you tried to see light, love
How deep you think you can dig your sunken eyes?
Quick as the tide is to rise when the world is not
Right – so are you left, to your very lone device
Don't tell me ten things that you know
Don't show me five you see
Don't need to hear ten things you know
Just one you believe
Go sailing down your River Styx
Go spite your voice to save your pride
Circling around, again a year
Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine
Into the arms of an old typewriter
Your thoughts fell as hard as the sun
Down to the line where the earth cuts the sky
And this letter, you confessed, is to anyone