Truth Cannot Be Spoken
Copyright 2004 Dana Clark
CHORUS: Truth cannot be spoken.
It hides between the lines.
We can glimpse it in a painting, and some songs can give us signs.
But our search for certainty does not need logic, wants no proof.
For truth is in the metaphor.
We’re poets of the truth.
VERSE: The images that we absorbed when we were innocent
Guide us every moment and provoke our discontent.
Each pattern leads us differently, so carefully we choose,
For once we’re lost in webs of words we’re ever more confused.
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VERSE: An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth may not be what we seek,
But we can make another choice and we can turn the other cheek.
Those ancient voices haunt us with “you should, you ought, you must,”
But with my words I warn you that these words we cannot trust.
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VERSE: We bear the burden of our doubts, the blessings of our minds,
But no single set of rules work for all people for all time.
With open hearts and open minds we search for what is true.
But nets of words can’t catch the light that guides our every move.
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