Wake from sleep covered like a burial shroud    Go do the best    Go and make the family proud    Live through waking dreams    hidden here within the crowd       Why is the sad truth no better than a simple lie?    Here in the heartland    awaken to here this cry    Say all the right words    and yet still you sigh    Why is the sad truth no better than a simple lie?       Shake from calm    learning from a naïve child    Find faith too late    Too late to make the demons wild    Need these waking dreams    just to keep the fever mild       Why is the sad truth    no better than a simple lie?    Here in the heartland    leaving us high and dry    Say all the right words    and yet still you sigh    Why is the sad truth no better than a simple lie?       Stir from haze    Angels light the empty way    I'll carry on    all through the final day    Lose those waking dreams    in the end I cannot stay.