The Truth - Billy Dean

A hymn in an old pinewood church

I’ve been written on pages and passed down through ages

I ain’t pretty and sometimes I hurt

But they’ll try to spin me so you won’t believe me

While looking you straight in the eye

And they’ll try to drown me until you forsake me

With a bottle of their best 90 proof

But you’ve known me all along

I’m the difference between right and wrong

I am the truth

They’re gonna make me a fossil like an old Steinbeck novel

A souvenir lost on a shelf

So in a moment of weakness don’t let them come between us

Or turn you into someone else

Cause they’ll try to spin me so you won’t believe me

While looking you straight in the eye

And they’ll try to drown me until you forsake me

With a bottle of their best 90 proof

But you’ve known me all along

I’m the difference between right and wrong

I am the truth

And I’ll set you free if you listen to me

Yeah I’ll set you free

Cause you’ve known me all along

I’m the difference between right and wrong

I am the truth

Yeah I am the truth