High life
I'm waiting for the train
Subway that only goes one way
The stupid thing that'll come to pull us apart
And make everybody late
You spent everything you had
Wanted everything to stop that bad
Now I'm a crashed credit card registered to Smith -
Not the name that you called me with
You turned white like a saint
I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold-flaked paint
Oh we're so very precious, you and I
And everything that you do makes me want to die
Oh I just told the biggest lie
I just told the biggest lie
The biggest lie
Subway that only goes one way
The stupid thing that'll come to pull us apart
And make everybody late
You spent everything you had
Wanted everything to stop that bad
Now I'm a crashed credit card registered to Smith -
Not the name that you called me with
You turned white like a saint
I'm tired of dancing on a pot of gold-flaked paint
Oh we're so very precious, you and I
And everything that you do makes me want to die
Oh I just told the biggest lie
I just told the biggest lie
The biggest lie
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The Biggest Lie Lyrics as written by Steven Paul Smith
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I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
SUCH a talented musician! I think it's about a man who loves a female and it's possibly the first time he has experienced honest love...honest in that he has allowed her to know him like no other. And he knows her (to a point). I believe it's the first time he's exprienced true friendship, and the first time someone asked him (or forced him) to re-evaluate his life's choices, the path he's always taken, why perhaps that is, and how short-sighted he is not only about true freedom, but about his true (and wonderful) self. It's about a man (Elliott?) who has never trusted anyone, especially not himself. He finds it difficult to trust, but wants desperately to do so. He convinces himself that if he opens himself up anymore to this person, he will lose his identity...be forced to live her life, be forced into her expectations, and be forced to fail because failure has been the result of every relationship he's ever had. His family perhaps let him down so any true love will do the same. Keeping her (him?) at arm's length will keep him safe from abandonment, safe from risk, but also away from reward...for with any real love comes great reward. It may also be about Elliott feeling sad that the person who took his heart is not the type to make him feel good about himself. Perhaps she (or he) is older, not physically attractive, not anyone who would look good on his arm. Perhaps if she or he were, he would be better able to take risk, to try something new, to stop making excuses, and to stop thinking the end of the world would come if he had her and then she let him go. The song is so short-sighted. Eventually all those we keep at arm's length move on...they tire of feeling used and used up. They tire of others receiving all the real perks (the hand-holding, the small talk in bed at night, the cuddling and wrapping ankels and feet together, the dancing in the moonlight, etc). The last line may be about him/her making him face the realities of his decisions, which makes him angry. Sadly, the only 'lie" is those he tells himself to justify his actions...to convince himself he's truly free and not caged. Emotionally that's not the case.