It ain´t complicated
Well I´ve grown to hate it
I never liked the taste of crow
But baby I ate it
They tried to warn me
They said that you were ornery
So don´t bring me those big brown eyes
and tell me that you´re sorry
Well you might as well throw gasoline on a fire

The way you lie
You lie like a priceless Persian rug on
a rich man´s floor
and you lie like a coon dog basking
in the sunshine on my porch
Well you lie like a penny in a parking
lot at the grocery store
It just comes way too natural to you
The way you lie

That ain´t my perfume, I bet she had a curfew
You told me you were out with the boys and
baby I believed you
So why you lookin´ so nervous
You know you kind of deserve this
I ought to kill you right now
And do the whole wide world a service
Well my daddy´s gonna straighten you out
Like a piece of wire, like a piece of wire

The way you lie
You lie like the man with the slicked back
hair who sold me that Ford
Yeah you lie like a pine tree in the back yard
after last month´s storm
Well you lie like a penny in a parking lot at
the grocery store
It just comes way too natural to you
The way you lie

Well I tell you what I´m gonna do
I´m gonna drive to the big old muddy river
I´m gonna park my car in the middle of the
mile long bridge
And there I´m gonna cry
Well maybe just a little
Then I´m gonna slip off the ring
that you put on my finger
And give it a big old fling and watch it sink
Down, down, down
And there it´s gonna lie until the Lord
comes back around

Because you lie like a priceless Persian rug on
a rich man´s floor
You lie like a coon dog basking
in the sunshine on my porch
Well you lie like a penny in a parking
lot at the grocery store
It just comes so dang natural to you
The way you lie

The way you lie
Well it´s what you do, it´s who you are