White Lies

Telling white lies so we can make it to the morning
Telling white lies until the conflict is avoided
Telling white lies to myself can usually cheer me up
Or at least knock some sense in me
Telling white lies to the one you love can keep that love alive

Everyone you love will let you down
And what? You're just supposed to talk it out?
I've forgiven you but there's permanent damage now
Forming fault lines in my psyche
And any random thing can trigger an earthquake
It's unlikely but it happens all the time
Where I tell you that I'm fine
'Cause I don't want to bring it up again and burden you
But I know, you know it's obvious I'm

Telling white lies so we can make it to the morning
Telling white lies until the conflict is avoided
Telling white lies to myself can usually cheer me up
Or at least knock some sense in me
Telling white lies to the one you love can keep that love alive
'Cause everyone you love will let you down

And I get it
You've got a whole new group of friends
And you feel more like yourself when you go out with them
Oh, I can hear you now at another new brewery
Confessing to each other your salaries
And they ask what your boyfriend does for a living
You try your hardest to explain me
They pick up on your defensive tone
They haven't met him yet, he's never home
But he always sounds stressed out when he calls you from the road
But he's just

Telling white lies so we can make it to the morning
Telling white lies until the conflict is avoided
Telling white lies to myself can usually cheer me up
Or at least knock some sense in me
Telling white lies to the one you love can keep that love alive

Might just save all man-kind
So look me in the eye and do it
'Cause everyone you love will let you