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When First We Practice To Deceive

By catz

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When First We Practice To Deceive I thought about it, before I opened my mouth to utter those false words to you I thought about it, planned on what I’d say the deed done, the story untrue We’ve always been so honest up ‘til now anyway I believed you and you believed me Never a doubt, not for an instant each word between us so true and now this, how can it be I told one lie, then tried to explain but then another came out crap, why did I say that, why I should start all over tell the truth from the start I almost made it then began to cry Damn, if I’d only told the truth, would’ve been only one hurt instead of two but I told another lie Just to cover up the first one never again I said to myself this is terrible, I’d rather die As soon as I get out of this it’s the straight and narrow for me back to the old honesty and trust But…now that you believe this I could fudge a little more Cripes! stop this, I must One lie leads to another where do we stop, when does it end what can I do to make you believe Can we make it back from here what could we be thinking when first we practice to decieve Dee Garner November 10, 2001 Written November 10th, 2001 © on Nov 10 2001 11:06 AM PST, Dee Garner   0 • 10

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