Avert your eyes from the scene of the crime

Take your bystander guilt and go home for the night

Now we’re all predisposed, to keep our minds closed

Watch the world decompose

And act like we couldn’t have known

Swear to tell the truth

The truth that’s convenient for you

Can you even tell the difference

Between the deceived and the false witness?

Can I trust my survival instinct

Not to sell out my conviction?

And what becomes of the silent victim?

Choose to buy in and believe the magic

Place your card in the deck, turn your head for the switch

It’s the choice that you make, picture you frame

Where sadness is masked by the smile on your face

But you still swear to tell the truth

The truth that’s convenient for you

You swear to tell the truth…

Can you even tell the difference

Between the deceived and the false witness?

Can I trust my survival instinct

Not to sell out my conviction?

And what becomes of the silent victim?

The silence makes me ache

I can’t stop the twitching in my face

It’s a tell, a tell, tell sign

I can’t tell a lie

Lying awake for days at a time

L. Switzer