Let's Not Pretend (To Be New Men)

You can waste your precious time

Trying to erase all your thin little crimes

Making no waves, tiny drops in the ocean

Why trade old habits for new found devotions

When you can shed your skin

And slither in with some new friends

Cover your homes

Put a hat on your head

Paint everything blue that used to be red

We'll jump in the river

In the black water brine

Down to some treasure that they left behind

You may get rich

Or maybe you will drown

So let's begin

The question is not if, but when

And let's not pretend to be new men

You can change your shirt

Scrub off the grime and the dirt

Walk by the mirrors, don't look at yourself

And pull all your sinister ways from the shelf

'Cause you did what you did

And you did it so well

Say that you won't, but you'll do it again

They could not trust you before

And they won't trust you now

Oh, they won't trust you now

So go out, repent

Go be sorry now, for your sins

And let's not pretend

Oh, let's not pretend

No, no, no no

Let's not pretend

Oh, let's not pretend

Let's not pretend to be new men

Let's not pretend

Oh, let's not pretend

Let's not pretend to be new men

Let's not pretend to be new men

Let's not pretend to be new men

Let's not pretend to be new men