Okkervil River - Pop Lie lyrics

All sweetly sung and succinctly stated Words and music you calculated To make you sing along With your stereo on As you stand in your shorts on your lawn Get completely incorporated By some couple who consummated Their first love by the dawn A falling star wished upon And flashed in the sky and was gone And mouths wet and blonde hair braided By the back room, the kids all waited To meet the man in bright green Who had dreamed up the dream That they wrecked their hearts upon He's the liar who lied in his pop song And you're lying when you sing along You're lying when you sing along So, here's the car seat, so cruelly weighted And here's the faces already faded At the end of the day When they just threw away The only good thing that they owned And now they're pinned down and strangulated But at the food court, the float's inflated People line up to see The man who dreamed up the dream That they wrecked their hearts upon He's the liar who lied in his pop song The liar who lied in his pop song And you're lying when you sing along Oh yeah, you're lying when you sing along Week by week, it climbs up and comes on And we're feeling alright, though we know it's all wrong I'm ashamed to admit that I cannot resist what I wished were the truth, but is not And I truly believe we're not strong And we'll sing till our voices are gone And I'm singing in that manicured lawn This is respectfully dedicated To the woman who concentrated All of her love to find That she'd wasted it on The liar who lied in this song