[Verse 1]
I don't wanna go
Where everybody knows your name
So I just stay at home
Mm, anymore these days

[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause every time I leave the house
I hear somebody ask about you
And I just can't bring myself to tell the truth about it
So I tell a lie, mm
Say you're doin' pretty good
And things are goin' like they should
And when I get back home tonight
I'm gonna tell ya that they said to tell ya hi, mm-mm

[Chorus]
'Cause the truth is, the truth is
I don't wanna tell 'em
I don't wanna tell 'em what thе truth is
Oh, the truth is, the truth is
I don't wanna tell 'еm
I don't wanna tell 'em what the truth is

[Verse 2]
It's so much easier
They don't know that we're just friends
Than goin' down that road
And losin' you all over again
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause it's hard to live with knowin'
All the things I did and didn't do to keep you by my side
And I'm the reason for goodbye
And why you're gone
I just talk about the weather or whatever
Yeah, 'cause anything is better than discussin'
All the nothin' that we got goin' on
And that I'm barely hangin' on

[Chorus]
'Cause the truth is, the truth is
I don't wanna tell 'em
I don't wanna tell 'em what the truth is
Oh, the truth is, the truth is
I don't wanna tell 'em
I don't wanna tell 'em what the truth is

[Chorus]
But the truth is, the truth is
I don't wanna tell 'em
I don't wanna tell 'em what the truth is
And the truth is, the truth is
I don't wanna tell 'em
I don't wanna tell 'em what the truth is
(Every time I leave the house
I hear somebody ask about you
And I just can't bring myself to tell the truth about it
So I tell a lie)
I don't wanna tell 'em
I don't wanna tell 'em
(Say you're doin' pretty good
And things are goin' like they should
And when I get back home tonight
I'm gonna tell ya that they said to tell ya hi)
What the truth is