@ministryoflove: Thanks for the listen, cheers :) Been playing with some new effects on this one, so it's a bit unusual for me. 

Maybe you should try to play the intro/verse once again as an ending - maybe ;) Because its so good

This part is a really cool change! really tight guitar sound.

Great melody...really really good...I am to become a follower in about two seconds...there you go..I'm a follower!

Islandia

Lying to others is one of the lowest acts a human being can ever do!  The truth always comes out eventually, and when it does there is hell to pay!  I know that I have been guilty of this in the past, especially when I was younger.  I guess everyone goes through these phases of deception and trying to get away with whatever they can.  It always comes back to bite the culprit however, so there's really no point.  Trust is broken when people lie, and this can often lead to the irreparable damage of friendships and close bonds with family.  I'm a big fan of the Jim Carrey film "Liar Liar", which is about a compulsively deceitful lawyer who wakes up one morning and can only tell the truth.  The results are hilarious as he struggles to go about his everyday life, not to mention his job in various courts of law.  The song's title is taken from one of many things that a music friend of mine is teaching her kids at the moment.  These very words are actually stuck on her fridge, to serve as a timely reminder.

One may have noticed that I like to document my thought process when it comes to writing songs, and they can often start at one place and end up somewhere completely different.  I guess that's the beauty of these songwriting themes, as they really get you thinking outside the square.  I know that I have written about things that I would have never even considered, had it not been for I Heart Songwriting Club!


CHORUS
Always tell the truth
Think before you speak
Because if you don't
The outcome will be bleak

Things that you like doing
You can't have anymore
For how long is up to them
You'll just have to be bored


VERSE 1
A kid lied to his parents
About being where he was not
He had no screens for a month
But didn't lose the plot

He just played music all day
That helped him pass the time
He'd be an pro by now
While paying for his crime

But you must


CHORUS
Always tell the truth
Think before you speak
Because if you don't
The outcome will be bleak

Things that you like doing
You can't have anymore
For how long is up to them
You'll just have to be bored


VERSE 2
When I had no answers
I felt that I should lie
To satisfy the questioner
And be as nice as pie

It came back to bite me
I was always found out
Big trouble was ahead
And I had to go without

So you must


CHORUS
Always tell the truth
Think before you speak
Because if you don't
The outcome will be bleak

Things that you like doing
You can't have anymore
For how long is up to them
You'll just have to be bored


VERSE 3
Jim Carrey played a lawyer
Who always told untruths
He would lie his butt off
And come across as rude

He woke up one morning
And had to change his ways
It was so hard for him
But then amends were made

That's why you should


CHORUS
Always tell the truth
Think before you speak
Because if you don't
The outcome will be bleak

Things that you like doing
You can't have anymore
For how long is up to them
You'll just have to be bored

Always Tell The Truth

Must admit, you left your mark on my skin,
Now I keep waking 1/2/3/4 hours too early,
You impressed, you left impressions, then you leave,
Cut me deep.

You should have someone who's good and kind,
Someone pure.
You love, it grows, I touch, it dies,
Dies on the floor.

It's not a consolation,
I tell the truth without a second thought,
Don't need another by your side,
But you make pretty nests so thats's a pity for,
The one who deserves you at night.

I saw the strength of pleading eyes,
At your front door.
So you went your way and I went mine,
That's folklore.

It's not a consolation,
I tell the truth without a second thought,
Don't need another by your side,
But you make pretty nests so thats's a pity for,
The one who controls you at night.

So take this from a passer-by,
That you've outworn.
Means more to me than these words describe,
That you're reborn.

Reborn: An Apology

Lies, Lies, Lies, Listen,
Whispering, deciding,
When and where we're hiding,
When we're lying side by side,
Trenches, 
Underneath the violence,
Grab my arm and tell me I'm a fighter, 
I'll be alright.
Am I being uptight?

Sightless eyes, looking,
Someone to confide in,
Silver tongues are gliding,
Meanwhile in the downtown wild,
Creatures,
Slipping into houses,
Brides are picking into stranger's trousers,
Like it's alright,
We're turning our blind eyes.

Bleak Town you're time's up,
Renage and move,
Never return there,
Find somewhere new,
The hedonistic skyline's thumping,
Like northern lights the neon's beaming,
So I'll recede into the sky,
From arboreal times,
Real time.

Bleak Town

Storytellers vie,
Silver merchants weave designs,
And precious jewels are tied,
Beneath a parachuting sky.
Cloudy lemonade,
While reclining in the shade,
Musicians and their dancers take the stage.

I try to understand,
It doesn't make no sense to me,
It doesn't make no sense.
Why is everybody leaving?
Everybody's moving away,
From this place I made.

A castle masquerade,
Fire-breathers on parade,
Exotic and fresh banquet being laid.
A hot air balloon gives rise,
Magicians standing by,
The fortune tellers lie and lie.

I try to understand,
It doesn't make no sense to me,
It doesn't make no sense.
Why is everybody leaving?
Everybody's moving away,
Why is everyone deserting,
Turning and drifting away,
From this place I made?

I try to understand,
It doesn't make no sense to me,
It doesn't make no sense.
Why is everybody leaving?
Everybody's moving away,
Why is everyone deserting,
Turning and drifting away?
While my iron heart is burning,
My paper skin is curling away,
In this place I made.

This Place I Made

Don't let the passage of time,
Tarnish the glow and the shine,
Radiated by,
Instrumental lives,
We lived side by side.

Sleet claws the cobbles outside,
Regular bar, Royal Mile,
Table by the fire,
I wear your favourite tie,
And you wear Argyll.

Order my whisky, your wine,
Hours fall away, closing chime,
"People, look alive!"
Released into the night,
And scattered for miles.

In one lonely window, a light,
Communicating bodies combine,
What can I sacrifice,
To prove to you that I'll,
Keep this 'till I die.

Don't let the passage of time,
Tarnish the glow and the shine,
Radiated by,
Instrumental lives,
We lived side by side.

Argyll

First conceived in early 2009, Any Idle Clone is a solo music project in which all material is written, performed and produced by a Manchester-based singer-songwriter. Tracks from the debut album, released in 2010, feature a strong acoustic influence, relying on piano and guitar accompaniments, stripped back vocals and an emphasis on story-telling lyrics.

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