# Truth | | | | --- | --- | | __Title__: | Truth | | __Featured on__: | [[Transparent]],[[Transparent (2017 Remaster)]] | | __Original__: | null | | __Derivative__: | null | | __Previous Version__: | null | | __Next Version__: | null | | __Alternate Version:__ | undefined | | __Interpolated in:__ | null | | __Interpolates:__ | null | --- *__Truth__* is a song originally released on Coil’s [YEAR] album [RELEASE NAME]. ## Lyrics > *And I believe it was truth…* > *The truth has not been in your courtroom,* *Never has been in your courtroom.* *All you have is confusion in your courtroom.* *Why do I have to stand and take the blame for your sins again?* *I’ve spent my life in jail, paying for you, so that you could ride your bicycle, have* *your birthday parties, have what you call a life.* *You know, I never had a life. I don’t even know what life is, you know: I go to the* *desert, I’m not even allowed to live in your desert. I’m no good for anything except* *to be used, as your scapegoat.* > *I’m used. Every day of my life, I’ve been used. When I haven’t been used, and I have* *been on the — on the street – I’ve been chased, robbed, harassed, pushed, kicked,* *my ribs have been broken.* *You know, the same man that gives you a traffic ticket is the same guy that knocks* *my brains out.* *He figures just because he’s the man (those scum) … nobody’s gonna say anything.* > *My daddy’s not a congressman, a doctor, or a lawyer.* > *..Under the door… Sneaking … Sneaking everywhere. Everything is sneaky up* *around Sneakyville…* *Has to be sneaky, and it’s even a shame to sneak… to make… Such an evil, nasty* *thing.* *You gotta sneak to get to the truth; the truth is condemned… The truth has been in* *your reservation, building your railroads, emptying your garbage. The truth is in* *your brains and your jails, and the young lads starting your courts or your congress* *where the old sit judgement on the young. They don’t know about the young…* > *Look at the madness that goes on. You can’t prove anything that happened yesterday. Now is the only thing that’s real. You can try to prove that Columbus sailed on* *that ocean, but it’s not the same ocean: it’s a different ocean. It’s a different world.* > *Every day, every reality is a new reality.* *Every new reality is a – is a new horizon – a brand-new experience oblivion.* > *A friend of mine… He’s afraid of what he might have to do in order to save his* *reality, as I saved mine.* > *You can’t prove anything: there’s nothing to prove. Every man judges himself. He* *knows what he is. You know what he was. I know what I am. We all know who we* *are. Nobody can stand in judgement – like you’re standing in judgement. of a* *human body… But it doesn’t amount to anything.* > *What they’re doing is, they’re only persecuting themselves. They’re persecuting* *what they can’t stand to look at in themselves: the truth! They can’t stand to* *look at the truth in themselves so they persecute themselves.* > *They’re persecuting themselves every time they go on the freeway.* > *They hate themselves. Look at the signs. Stop, go, turn here, turn there, you can’t* *do this, you can’t do that, you can’t, you can’t, you can’t, this is illegal, that’s illegal,* *everything’s illegal.* > *The police used to watch over the people; now they’re watching the people. The* *president doesn’t represent the people; he could be on the roadside picking up his* *children but he isn’t. He’s in the White House sending them off to war.* *And you’re saying I have to pay for this again, and again and again;* *I’ve gotta pay for your sins. How many times have I gotta pay for your sins?* > *I’m getting tired.* *I’m getting tired.* The monologue that makes up the majority of the song is a recording from an interview with Charles Manson.[^MansonInterview] Over this, [[Jhonn Balance]] shouts words that are unintelligible on any known recording. [^1] ## Versions ## Personnel |Name|Credit| |---|---| ||| ||| ## References [^1]: <https://live-coil-archive.com/1983-2/1983-atonal/> [^MansonInterview]: c.f. <https://youtu.be/SAiRKHDwLfI?t=4587>