"Living a Lie" is the fourth track on Shufflepuck's debut album.

"Living a Lie"
Album track by Shufflepuck
from the album Album
ReleasedAugust 27, 1996 and August 5, 2024
RecordedThe Record Plant, 4th Street Recording and A&M Studios
Mixed at The Record Plant
Mastered at Precision Mastering.
Length3:18
LabelInterscope Records (original release)
Mos Eisley Music (proper release)
Songwriter(s)Adam Orth
Producer(s)Jim Wirt
StatusReleased
Album track listing
Alternate cover
Original cover
Original cover

Overview

This song is the third single on the re-release.

Personnel

Audio

Lyrics

When I was a boy
My mother said "be careful, son the dreams in your head that you keep when you drift off to sleep satisfy but they won't get you by."
Even as a man
My father pleads "son, understand the schemes that run wild in your leave your future for dead in our eyes and they won't get you by."

You're living a lie
Hear what I say
You're wasting away

Standing here my head is reeling
I can't control the way I'm feeling
Mother, father please forgive me
For the way I'm living

When I was a boy
My mother said "be careful, son the dreams in your head that you keep when you drift off to sleep satisfy but they won't get you by."

You're living a lie
Hear what I say
You're wasting away
They won't get you by
You're living a lie

Hear what I say
You're wasting away

See also