Yard Act – Tall Tales Lyrics

Tall Tales – Yard Act Lyrics

Small change in my pocket

I'm gonna spend it like a king

Her trucker's arm

Was hanging from its socket

I guess I should probably

Pop it back in again

But the truth is I kinda like

Watching it swing from side to side

It's like a pendulum with no pride

And I'm swimming and swimming and swimming

Against a great tide

I used to walk on water before this tug-of-war erupted

Yeah, I took it all in my stride

Tall tales

Tall tales

Tall, tall tales

And when all else fails

The moral of the story is this

The moral of the story is this

I ain't coming home from a war I'm yet to fight

With my tail between my legs

I wasn't late for work 'cause I was brushing me tegs

No, I bumped into a modern-day Robin Hood and his band of merry men

I ended up spending that small change on a stale loaf for me

And ten gallons of ale for them, ugh

I can see now how history's doomed to repeat this scene

The whole "absolute power corrupts absolutely" thing, if you know what I mean

'Cause statistically speaking

For all the good men of history who have ever been

For their name to have even graced your lips

They had to have been lying through their t-t-t-teeth

Tall tales

Tall tales

Tall, tall tales

And when all else fails

The moral of the story is this

Moral bankruptcy reigns supreme in the American dream

The fatted calf suckling at the teat of some fucked-up Ponzi scheme

You're hardly being dragged, kicking and screaming

I'm merely tugging at your sleeve

With a smile that could make peace in the Middle East

I've got those teeth you can believe in

So you send a tall tale up into outer space

It gets picked up by some far-off alien race

But they've heard all of this before

To them it's just another time and place you misremembered

When your brain made a small change to the tall tale that you were telling

Tall tales

(Tall tales)

Tall tales

(Tall, tall tales)

Tall, tall tales

And when all else fails

The moral of the story is this

The moral of the story is this

The moral, the moral, the moral, demoralise me

The moral, the moral, the moral, woohoo

The moral of the story is this

La, la, la, laa

The moral of the story is this