Learned To Lie

[Intro]
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[Verse]
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I traced it back to a couple months before I was born
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I must’ve heard my momma tell my daddy
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That she was tired, ‘cause babies make you tired, but
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Deep down she was just unhappy

D
I think my father did the best that he could do
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He rarely made it to the dinner table
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Said he was working late

But he was working late
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Fogging up the windows of an ’89 Sable

[Chorus]
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I, I
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I learned to cry
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Quietly, I learned to pray
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Silently, inside a house where the Devil played

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And I, I
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Hate that it runs in my blood
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I hate how easy it comes
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I wish I learned how to love the same way I
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Learn to Lie

[Verse]
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I learned to sing to Carole King on the radio
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I learned to shoot on a little Red Ryder
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I can drive a stick, and in a pinch
G A
I can pop a bottle with a cigarette lighter

[Chorus]
A
I, I
G
Learned to cry
A
Quietly, I learned to pray
Bm A G
Silently, inside a house where the Devil played

A
And I, I
G
Hate that it runs in my blood
A
I hate how easy it comes
Bm A G
I wish I learned how to love the same way I
A
Learn to Lie

[Instrumental]
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[Break]
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And I, I
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I learned to say things I don’t mean
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Like “Stay” when I want you to leave
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And when you don’t come home or call
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And I swear I don’t mind

[Chorus]
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I, I
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Hate that I know how it’s done
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When a moment just like this one comes
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I just go numb and play dumb and look you in the eye

A G
And lie
A G
Oh, and lie

[Outro/Instrumental/Solo]
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