Smashing Watches

You never really know what the truth is

When you take a hammer to a watch

You want to know what’s inside so bad

You smash and never learn how it works

A man might look you straight in your eyes

And say what he claims is true

When everything but his eyes

Tells you he’s lying

And you have no way to prove it

So you smash the watch

And watch the springs slither across

The table top between you,

Reading no more truth at all

Just ruined metal

You can never know how much

A man knows unless you ask him

And must somehow have faith

In what he says is true

Even when you know it might not be

Even when the tock ticks tell you

Something else is true

And you know if you want to keep

The world in balance

You let the watch tick

And let his lie lay where it is

On his lips

But some men like me always

Smashes watched,

Even when in the end

Nothing good comes of it.