Man Named Truth

Album: Monsters of Folk (2009)
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  • Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth
    Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth
    I'll tell you right now that it ain't no use
    Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth

    Pain was a-huntin' me down but I gave him the slip
    I left the city through the tunnel and i headed for the sticks
    With oregano oil and a morphine drip
    Pain was hunting me down but I gave him the slip

    then I fell in love with identical twins
    They lived 34 summers between the two of them
    I gave one my ego, I gave one my id
    Yeah, I gotta get back to my pretty little twins

    Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth
    Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth
    I'll tell you right now that it ain't no use
    Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth

    I was lost for a year in those almond trees
    The sun was rising in south and setting in the east
    I was half-awake, I was half-asleep
    I thought I'd never get out of those almond trees

    So don't think too slow in the syrupy sun
    You get buried alive when you're caught up in the cold (?)
    Tapping your time on a congo drum
    Don't think too slow in the syrupy sun

    I met a black-skinned man with a ice cream grin
    and a blond afghan with that heroin
    we moved to the mountains where the highway ends
    and I got myself that ice cream grin

    So don't search too long for that Aztec gold
    Like gold Cortez, gonna lose your soul
    turn an honest man into Diablo
    Don't trade your soul for no Aztec gold

    Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth
    Never buy nothin' from a man named truth
    Look in my eyes and you see the proof
    Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth


    Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth
    Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth
    Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth
    Don't ever buy nothin' from a man named truth Writer/s: CONOR M OBERST
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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