Tall Tales

Tell the story like you mean it.
Write me down and don't forget.
Rewire all the circuits in your head.
Steal the words right from out of their mouths
Chew them up and spit them out.
Call my bluff. Call me out.
Pretend you listened.
Join the circus like you wanted.
State your purpose and your point.
You must know by now
That you color code your lies.

Can you beam back down
Cause there's a mermaid a pirate and a spaceman on the shore
Catch me right before I fall
Through a trillion galaxies
You be me and I'll be you.
Don't you know
Sometimes I wished I was you

Nobody tells it like you
Nobody told it like

You ran fast as lightning
trust that man there in the mask
You'll never have to explain The monsters under your bed
Or how the big bad wolf went up in flames.

But when we robbed that train,
You swore we'd never set foot on that island again.
The natives were restless
And the antidote had an adverse reaction

We got out with our lives
everything was green and white and black and light
we forgot that princess
Oh hell, still probably sitting pretty at that station

can you beam back now
Cause there are martians and villains and gods here on the ground
this time I'll Catch you when you fall
Right through a trillion galaxies
You be me and I'll be you
Don't you know
Nobody told it like you

Burn those bridges like you wanted
(I used to wish I was you)
Hope that three-ring circus treats you right
Monsters, beasts and wolves and witches
you all look different in the light
Oh oh oh

Tell the story like you mean it.
Rewire all the circuits in your head.

Can you beam back down
Cause there's a mermaid a pirate and a spaceman on the shore
Catch me right before I fall
Through a trillion galaxies

Can you beam back now
Cause there are martians and villains and gods here on the ground.
This time I'll Catch you when you fall
Right through a trillion galaxies
You be me and I'll be you.
Don't you know
I used to wish I was you
I thought you knew
I thought you knew
You said it
You meant it
You and your tall tales