Please Dont Be Honest by Guided by Voices Lyrics

Skeleton stick figure of myself
It’s how you draw the line
One step ahead of mine

Eye to eye
Jockeying for position

I know you
Scrape and bleed
Scroll the screen for selection

Please don’t be honest
And tell me I’m wrong again
Please don’t be forthright
And say I should know

I should have known that long ago
Over a foolish impulse
A practical mindset should prevail
But I’m the customer
And I am deceived
By my belief in right from wrong
Don’t ever repeat these words
Honesty’s no excuse
For allowing a wider gap
Proximity of a distant ocean