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Thread #62804 Message #1017876
Posted By: Jim Dixon
12-Sep-03 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyrics request - 'I Told Her Lies'
Subject: RE: Lyrics request - 'I Told Her Lies'
"I Told Her Lies" appears on Robbie Fulks' album "South Mouth," Bloodshot CD 23, 1997. Here's what I transcribed from a sound sample at Yahoo! Shopping > Music:
... quicker than a rifle shot,
And when the justice said, "Now, do you swear?" I gazed into her eyes,
And in a voice sincere with fingers crossed, I told her lies.
Yeah, I told her lies. I told her lies,
Big and little, long and tall, every shape and size,
Till when I heard the word "forever." 'Twas then I realized
I couldn't tell her what I thought, so I told her lies.
Now as the years went drifting by, temptation slowly grew.
I’d stalk a tramp from time to time. I even slept with two….