How Much Truth

(Mose Allison)
Audae Mae Music (BMI)

How much truth can a man stand
Sitting by the ocean
Nothing but perpetual motion
Finger painting in the sand
How much truth can a man stand

How much truth can a woman stand
Looking at her teenage daughter
Just another lamb for the slaughter
(Eighteen years with a drinkin man -I changed this because a drinking man
is much worse than a lying man in my experience, having had much
with the latter and eighteen years worth with a drinker.)
How much truth can a woman stand

How much truth can this world stand
Left without it's daydreams
One in a (billion) so it seems
Wondering how it all began
Threatened by the works of man
(Explain children killin if you can)
How much truth can this world stand
How much truth can this world stand

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