Name: It's Not True
Duration: P00H02M39S
Description: Wrote this song standing in line to come home from the Nashville airport

It's Not True

from Greatest Hits by Forrest Cooper

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Wrote this song standing in line to come home from the Nashville airport

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It’s Not True

I was talking to my son at home the other day
He was telling me about his friends and how they would play
I guess some kids had told him that he wouldn’t be cool
Unless he broke a window, at the local swimming pool
(And I said)

It’s not true
Son, don’t you listen to the lies they told you
Sometimes the road to happiness seems lonesome and blue
But someday you’ll find out the truth

He shook his little head and ask me, “How can that be?
My friends can help me be the man that I want to be
I know God wants the best for me and I’d be alright
My friends tell me two wrongs can make a right.”
(And I said)

It’s not true
Son, don’t you listen to the lies they told you
Sometimes the road to happiness seems lonesome and blue
But someday you’ll find out the truth

I laid in bed awhile that night, my mind searching back
Through all the times that I had made decisions like that
I know it’s hard sometimes to hear the small voice inside
When all the strings are coming untied
(But I always say)

It’s not true
Son, don’t you listen to the lies they told you
Sometimes the road to happiness seems lonesome and blue
But someday you’ll find out the truth

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from Greatest Hits, released March 13, 2021
Music and lyrics by Forrest Cooper, mixing by Peter Bauer Studios, Eugene, Oregon. Music and lyrics by Forrest Cooper, mixing by Peter Bauer Studios, Eugene, Oregon. © 2018 Forrest Cooper, use by permission.

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