YOU'RE TELLING ME SWEET LIES AGAIN 
(Jack Rhodes / Gertrude Cox)

Jean Shepard - 1958


 

I thought any fool could be fooled only once
That a burned child remembers the pain
Yet here I am listening with stars in my eyes
You're telling me sweet lies again

They're tender and soothing like a kiss to my heart
I know that it's healing in vain
The wound will be deepened, you'll say we must part
You're telling me sweet lies again

(Instrumental Break)

Let some angel or fairy come rescue my heart
Wave a wand, change my fate that's so plain
I'm lost in a trance or a spell I can't break
You're telling me sweet lies again

They sound so familiar, like a book read before
I know that the ending's the same
Some magic is holding me spellbound once more
You're telling me sweet lies again



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2011)