10,000 Maniacs - Arbor Day lyrics

Wide open falsehood The clan destine truths Rival till the end In a series of duels Pardon the drapery language I choose Waltz in Vienna has taught me to use Every tall room a fiction Leather bound treasure books Up to the ceiling Gold spine upon spine The guile and the treason The faith and allegiance Wide open falsehood The clan destine truths Rival till the end In a series of duels Pardon the drapery language I choose The author grew fat to imagine His lead pen careening Gave voice to the scheming An Aryan cabale to dethrone The guile and the treason The faith and allegiance To the empire unknown The baron and his mistress Dine in a fine banquet hall As rebel insurgents plot in The attic space crawl Wide open falsehood The clan destine truths Rival till the end In a series of duels Pardon the drapery language I choose His small hand did strive to explain All the rants and raves of a people enslaved By the cant of the shrewdest capable men The guile and the treason The faith and allegiance Now lie in my hand The guile and the treason The faith and allegiance Now lie in my hand