Conspiracy Theory

[Verse 1]

What if I told you it was done with mirrors?

What if I showed you it was all a lie?

Better be careful, someone might hear you

The walls have ears and the sky has eyes

[Verse 2]

What if I said you were only dreaming?

What you want to bet that all you gotta do

Is open up your eyes and you will wake up screaming

When you realize that it's all come true

[Chorus: Siobhan Kennedy]

Hush now, don't you believe it

Cover your head and close your eyes now

Take it or leave it

Go back to bed now, don't you cry

[Verse 3]

Half a million soldiers fly across the water

One in ten are never coming back again

Fifty thousand sons who never grew to fathers

Don't you ever wonder who they might have been?

[Verse 4]

What if you could've been there on that day in Dallas?

What if you could wrestle back the hands of time?

Maybe something could've been done in Memphis

We wouldn't be living in a dream that's died

[Chorus: Siobhan Kennedy]

Hush now, don't you believe it

Cover your head and close your eyes now

Take it or leave it

Go back to bed now, don't you cry

[Verse 5: Steve Earle & Siobhan Kennedy]

Go on and tell yourself again there are no secrets

Go on and tell yourself that you don't want to know

It's best that you believe that you don't hear the footsteps

That follow you around no matter where you go

[Verse 6: Steve Earle & Siobhan Kennedy]

Maybe you were thinking that it didn't matter

Maybe you believed nobody else would care

But once you've added every little lie together

You finally find the truth was always waiting there

[Chorus: Steve Earle & Siobhan Kennedy]

Hush now, don't you believe it

Cover your head and close your eyes now

Take it or leave it

Go back to bed now, don't you cry

Hush now, don't you believe it

Cover your head and close your eyes now

Take it or leave it

Go back to bed now, don't you cry

Hush now, don't you believe it

Cover your head and close your eyes now

Take it or leave it

Go back to bed now, don't you cry