Last week I posted a poem and a song called Asbestos Skies and I mentioned it is an unofficial companion piece to a song written many years ago under the guise of my band Crimson Flight. I have found the lyrics to Chemical Lies and I wanted to share them with you.
Chemical Lies
I know we’re in trouble I can see it in the skies
I know we’re in danger it happens all the time
I can feel the warning in those chemical lies
There’s oil-slicked danger with your power to deny
Chemical lies
Oh your chemical highs
They’re killing me killing me
Chemical lies
Oh you cannibalise all those lives that you buy
And it’s killing me killing me
Your notion of freedom is bleeding me dry
Delusions of grandeur no longer benign
I can feel the terror from your oval disguise
Oh my
Chemical lies
Oh your chemical highs
Your chemical eyes
They’re killing me killing me
Chemical lies
Oh you cannibalise all those lives that you buy
And it’s killing me killing me
Nothing’s as it seems my boy
Nothing’s as it seems
Drift off it’s obscene my boy
Drift off to a dream
Chemical lies
Oh your chemical eyes
Are killing me
killing me
©Harris/deGruyther 2013
The World Outside the Window 