Please Don't Be Honest - Guided By Voices

Skeleton stick figure of myself

It’s how you draw the line

One step ahead of mine

Eye to eye

Jockeying for position

I know you

Scrape and bleed

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Please don’t be honest

And tell me I’m wrong again

Please don’t be forthright

And say I should know

I should have known that long ago

Over a foolish impulse

A practical mindset should prevail

But I’m the customer

And I am deceived

By my belief in right from wrong

Don’t ever repeat these words

Honesty’s no excuse

For allowing a wider gap

Proximity of a distant ocean