Don't say it (If you don't mean it)

You say you love me, but can you feel it in your heart?
Do you mean it? Don't you hate when we're apart?
There's your truth and honey sometimes there is mine
And the truth is - the truth of love is hard to find

Don't say it if you don't mean it,
Don't make this love a lie
Truth is never easy
And I can see it in your eye

You said your sorry, but what are you really sorry for?
That you hurt me? Or that i caught you with that... huh!
You begged forgiveness, but I'm not so pure or so kind
And true forgiveness, like the truth is hard to find

Don't say it if you don't mean it,
Don't make this love a lie
Truth is never easy
And I can see it in your eye

People's truth's don't always see eye to eye but,
That ain't no good reason, for you to lie
I'm not asking for promises and fairy tales
All i want is for a little truth, to get in the way, so

Don't say it if you don't mean it,
Don't make this love a lie
Truth is never easy
And I can see it in your eye

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I had the title of this song, after attending the Blues fest at Byron one year, while watching John Butler it came to me and I originally had in mind for it to be a political song, but months later I was thinking about the truth, and how there is no one universal truth. That in fact two people can both have the 'truth' about a situation and yet their versions of the truth can differ greatly, due to their own personal bias and perspectives, and that every truth needs to be taken with a grain of salt. (Including historical 'truths')

This then led to me thinking about relationships and how you need truth, trust and honesty within a relationship, and that the words 'I love you' can be overused to the point that people say it as routine rather than genuinely feeling true emotion every time they say it. So this became instead a song about not saying something if its just a meaningless platitude.