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Don't Believe

from Been Away by The Kellaways

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A relatively old song by the time it was recorded, this one tapped into the awesome hypocrisy and cant that typified the career of the truth-bending master, Johnnie Howard. But there is also the broader experience of listening to someone who you simply know - for reasons you can’t quite put your finger on – is not telling the truth. When you get this feeling, you are hardly ever proved to be wrong; it’s one of those instincts we must have preserved from primordial times, but which we have perhaps learned to mistrust through the process of science dominating our evidential world.

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DON’T BELIEVE

Listening to a story that’s told
The hero-narrator’s uncommonly bold
This doesn’t sound like the person you know
All of the details, blow by blow
Events rise to a peak
His face is far too meek

And you don’t believe a word
Of all the things you’ve heard
This one takes the special cake
It all seems absurd
You don’t believe a word
Not even a third
Truth is stretched to breaking point
What a nerve

The good politician stares at the lens
Straight is a word he works and he bends
An offer he’s made will help everyone
The outcome is sure, he’s done all the sums
Sincere, the eyebrows rise
A mask to hide those lies

But you don’t believe a word
Of all the things you’ve heard
This one takes the special cake
It all seems absurd
You don’t believe a word
Not even a third
Truth is stretched to breaking point
What a nerve

No, you don’t believe a word, you don’t believe a word
You don’t believe a word, you don’t believe a word
No, you don’t believe a word, you don’t believe a word
No, you don’t believe a word, you don’t believe a word
No, you don’t believe a word, you don’t believe a word

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from Been Away, released June 1, 2006

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