Lackawanna Rail

What is Truth

Words and Music by Michael Meade

Updated Monday, January 10, 2005

WRITER'S NOTES

At one point in my life, I was working for a few months in Atlanta. One of the guys that I was working with invited me to go with him one night to a Strip Club that I believe was called Tattletale. It was there I met a girl who called herself Gigi. (I'm pretty sure that was not the name her parents had given her, but I never knew her by her real name).

Anyway, she was a stripper there, and she had the biggest, most beautiful set of eyes (what did YOU think I was going to say?) that I had ever seen. I started to visit rather frequently, and she would sit with me sometimes and I would just get lost staring into those eyes.

But those kinds of places are sheer fantasy in it's purest form, and you can never tell if what she's saying is really the truth, or just a lie to get you to spend more money.

In the end, of course, nothing ever came of the relationship. But I got a couple of good songs out of it. "I don't want to be right" is also about Gigi, and her beautiful eyes.

I guess I should have looked away

Now it only hurts the more I stay

Looking deep into your eyes I get this feeling

That sometimes even dreams can come true.

And all I dream about is you, oh.

I guess I never should have touched you.

Then I wouldn't feel the way I do

Wanting desperately to hold you in my arms

And softly kiss you in some special way

Just to try to make you stay, oh.

Everytime I'm captured by your eyes

I can't help but wonder what is truth?

And what are the lies?

I guess I should have looked away, hey

Now it only hurts the more I stay

Looking deep into your eyes I realize

That dreams don't ever really come true

And all I dream about it you, oh

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What is Truth

Words and Music by Michael Meade

Updated Monday, January 10, 2005