The Charlatan

from The Taste of Iron by From Your Influence...

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What’s your reason for my absence?
Apart from your obvious innocence,
Cause butter wouldn’t melt on the fire from that tongue.
It changes, so quickly from right to wrong,
Disguising the weak as the strong.
You’ve hidden for too long baby.

Deluded? Or Excuses? Take your pick.
The cleanest mirror couldn’t hold your reflection.
It’s hard to remember when you choose to forget,
so easily and so damn delicately.
You’re the charlatan

Excuses will make liars of us all,
And sometimes the proud won’t fall,
Evidently.
But with such integrity
I just couldn’t see,
The darkest colours stain the worst.

Deluded? Or Excuses? Take your pick.
The cleanest mirror couldn’t hold your reflection.
It’s hard to remember when you choose to forget,
so easily and so damn delicately.
You’re the charlatan.

I was your tourniquet, a present for that past,
Father forgive her, so that she can forgive you,
‘You provoke me.’ The words of a mother that beats a child.
But answer me this: Who carries the scars?
And though the next one will hear your truth,
How long before your words go and hit the roof?
You come undone, and you’re seeing red,
With an itchy trigger finger and a loaded bed,
If I saw you in the street and passed you by,
Would you see your shoulder and then wonder why?
There’s not one word written down in a letter,
although I have a few, I’m trying to be better.

You’re the charlatan

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from The Taste of Iron, released October 28, 2014

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