Let the Truth Sting - David Gray

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Advisory - the following lyrics contain explicit language:
The hour is out of joint
The black sun has risen
And the river of words
Is flowing on through
The cages of traditionAnd they're handing out emptiness
Well, take it 'cause it's given
Free with this plastic innocence
And these standards of livingAnd questions lighted questions
Burnin' holes into my head
Hanging like shadows over the sun

Staring out like the eyes of the deadAnd sometimes my soul flickers
When the wind of change blows cold
Over the mire of repetition
Down the corridors of RigmaroleWhat I say, what I think
What I put down in ink
I'm only trying to find
A way to understandAnd I mean no harm
I'm just searching for calm
In the storm of mankindAnd do you find it there in the sea of faces
That drowns you everyday
Or in the silence and rubble and empty spaces
Where children and Rottweiler playIs it buried in the praise given so cheap
With a meaningless movement of the jaws
In the looking glass that flatters you
Or in the rattle of hollow applauseBlind circle, moon and sun body willing, mind undone
One pain ending while another begins
Lies, ruin disease into wounds like these
Let the truth stingFrom the hub to the limit
Through the urban hollows
Out into the poles of the extremeTo echo through the numbness
Of these godless minutes
In the shadow of delusions regimeAnd here watching the night
It opens like a flower
The day starts to rust
Time pound a silent hammer
On his empire of dustAnd I'm thinking 'bout the bullet
And the TV screen, the dollar and the clenched fist
And if were searching for peace
How come we still believe
In hatred as the catalystOh, through the borderline in front and behind
One pain ending while another begin
Lies, ruin disease into wounds like these
Let the truth sting, yeah
Let the truthAnd I feel it from the pit of my stomach
Into the ditch of my mind
Inside the chambers of my heart
As I stare half blindAt these walls of cardboard
At this space that I've rented
At your beauty that is crumbling
Though you try so hard to prevent itOh, on and on body willing, mind undone
One pain ending while another begins
Lies, ruin, disease into wounds like these
Let the truth stingLet the truth sting
Let the truth sting
Let the truth sting

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David Gray

David Gray is a British singer-songwriter born on June 13, 1968 in Sale, United Kingdom. He released his first studio album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later in 1999.

Gray moved to Wales at age 9 and later returned to the north-west of England to attend the University of Liverpool. His musical career got early support from a dedicated Irish fan base. After a few marginally-successful releases through the 1990s, Gray's breakthrough came with the worldwide release in 1999 of his fourth album, White Ladder; this was a critical and commercial success and included his best-known songs, "This Years Love" and "Babylon". In the United States, the album received a boost from jam-band leader Dave Matthews, who made it the first release by the record company he co-founded, ATO Records.

On August 11, 2001 White Ladder at last reached the top of the UK charts, having been selling steadily since its reissue the previous May, thereby setting a new record for the longest uninterrupted climb to No. 1. The follow-up, A New Day At Midnight, also hit No. 1, and Gray's seventh album, Life In Slow Motion was released on September 12, 2005.

Gray's early music was in a contemporary folk-rock, singer-songwriter mode; his primary instrument was acoustic guitar, with occasional piano. 1996's Sell Sell Sell featured some rock arrangements and electric instrumentation. Starting with the release of White Ladder in 1999, Gray began to make significant use of computer-generated music to accompany his voice and acoustic instrumentation, a technique which differentiates him from many of his peers. Despite the move to more complex music, Gray has used small-scale, often home-based, recording methods and equipment and espoused a "do it yourself" approach to music production. However, Life in Slow Motion is a collaboration with noted producer Marius de Vries.

David Gray's brothers-in-law are Paul and Phillip Hartnoll, formerly of the Techno/Rave band Orbital. Because of this relationship, Gray performed guest vocals on the Orbital single Illuminate, while Paul Hartnoll produced a breakbeat remix of Gray's song "Please Forgive Me".

His successful single "January Rain" was included in the original soundtrack of the movie Serendipity, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.

Pictures and additional information can be found on his website, www.DavidGray.com.

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