Conspiracy Theory
 (Steve Earle)

 What if I told you it was done with mirrors
 What if I showed you it was all a lie
 Better be careful, someone might hear ya
 The walls have ears and the sky has eyes
 What if I said you were only dreamin'
 What you wanna bet that all you gotta do
 Is open up your eyes and you will wake up screamin'
 When you realize that it's all come true

 chorus
 Hush, now don't you believe it
 Cover your head and close your eyes
 Now, take it or leave it
 Go back to bed
 Now don't you cry

 Half a million soldiers fly across the water
 One in ten are never comin' back again
 Fifty thousand sons who never grew to fathers
 Don't you ever wonder who they might have been
 What if you could've been there on that day in Dallas
 What if you could wrestle back the hands of time
 Maybe somethin' could've been done in Memphis
 We wouldn't be livin' in a dream that's died

 chorus

 Go on and tell yourself again there are no secrets
 Go on and tell yourself that you don't want to know
 It's best that you believe that you don't hear the footsteps
 That follow you around no matter where you go
 Maybe you were thinkin' that it didn't matter
 Maybe you believed nobody else would care
 But once you've added every little lie together
 You finally find the truth was always waiting there

 chorus x 2

 chorus (fades)