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Cover art for How to Survive in a World Full of Lies

A song by Carol Johnston

How to Survive in a World Full of Lies

Strength & Defiance 4:27

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Lyrics

When everything you know is a deceit
It's twisted to make history complete
School designed to unteach you
Rules defined to police you
Fools decide to decrease you
News divides to defeat you

How do you survive in a world full of lies?
How do you describe a world in disguise?
When do you know that you are compromised?
How could you not know?
How much that you comply?

We're Pavlov's dogma
Drooling for their facts
We drink their doctrines
Their tenets are our snacks

They disguise their lies
They improvise
They chastise the wise
They analyze
They despise the cries
They pacify
The truth is classified

Why choose this world when others may exist?
I'm sure that there is an extensive list
A school designed to teach you?
All rules defined to reach you?
Fool's decrees that increase you?
News supplied that release you?

How do you decide in a world full of lies?
How to recognize a world in disguise?
When do you know that you have synthesized?
How could you not know?
How much you realize?

We're Nietzsche's creation
Upgrading to a god
We filter experience
Epiphany is odd

We reveal the lies
We simplify
Defy the unwise
We analyze
Mollify the cries
We sympathize
The truth is in our eyes

That's how to survive in a world full of lies
That's how you describe a world in disguise
It's when you know that you are compromised
How could you not know?
How much you realize?

The truth is in our eyes
The truth is in your eyes

The truth is in your eyes

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