I sat me down to write a song
that’s all about what’s true;
but it’s difficult to write a tune
that sounds like something new.
Although not many songs are all
about this precious theme,
the melody accompanying them
the lyrics should redeem.

Truth, I’m told, can cause most folks
severe anxiety.
When they’re so used to the lie they live
the truth hurts them, you see.
So they play the victim when they hear
the truths you have to say.
They don’t want to receive that stuff
and they hope you’ll go away.

[Refrain]
But you cannot shroud the truth,
its imprint’s in the air,
the trees, the birds, the breeze, the sky,
God’s truth is everywhere.

People in the main don’t want
some raw reality
about the world or in their lives;
imagining they’re free.
They’d rather live the lie that all
is well when it is not.
They want the truth to be suppressed,
something to be forgot.

Apparently, when people learn
the countless ugly facts
about the way the world is run
and all that it impacts,
instead of seeking out what’s real
they just become depressed;
and so they say those naked truths
should never be expressed.

[Refrain]
Yet you cannot cloak the truth,
its imprint’s in the air,
the trees, the birds, the breeze, the sky,
God’s truth is everywhere.

The truth, they say, is “dangerous”
and not to be sought out.
The “they”, of course, is governments
and all who foster doubt
within the minds of subjects who
by them are thus controlled
and who into their lying schemes
they seek to be enrolled.

“Truth hurts” is often said by those
who fear its daunting work.
The way it brings out all that’s real
most folks would rather shirk.
As for myself I’d rather have
the whole truth and naught but.
The truth is that without the truth
one’s life is desolate.

[Refrain]
Thus you cannot mask the truth,
its imprint’s in the air,
the trees, the birds, the breeze, the sky.
God’s truth is everywhere.

“Truth, the whole truth, nothing but
the truth” is what is sworn
by witnesses in courtroom scenes;
for most that’s just a yawn!
For many wouldn’t know the truth
if it hit them ’tween the eyes.
For all that most have ever known
is a plethora of lies.

Lies from “statesmen”, lies from friends,
lies from parents too.
Everywhere you look for truth
there’s lies coming at you.
Lies from husbands, lies from wives,
and history’s mostly lies.
Lies from teachers, TV too,
the ‘News’! Is no one wise?

[Refrain]
Withal you cannot hide the truth,
its imprint’s in the air,
the trees, the birds, the breeze, the sky.
God’s truth is everywhere.

“What is truth?” a man once asked,
but he got no reply.
The Man he asked was Truth itself
in flesh personified.
So now you know why truth is such
a great pariah on
this earth where that Man lived and walked;
they wish He would begone!

It matters not how much the truth
uncomfortable is.
It’s more important than all else,
as I will now explain, viz…
If truth is not an absolute
but just what each one deems,
then chaos will ensue on Earth,
for Man apes ‘God’, it seems.

[Refrain]
However, you can’t veil the truth,
its imprint’s in the air,
the trees, the birds, the breeze, the sky,
God’s truth is everywhere.

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© Copyright, Alan Morrison, 2026
[The copyright on my works is merely to protect them from any wanton plagiarism which could result in undesirable changes (as has actually happened!). Readers are free to reproduce my work, so long as it is in the same format and with the exact same content and its origin is acknowledged]

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