I'm a hand on the Bible, the words of a father A hymn in an old pinewood church I've been written on pages and passed down through ages I ain't pretty and sometimes I hurt But they'll try to spin me so you won't believe me While looking you straight in the eye And they'll try to drown me until you forsake me With a bottle of their best 90 proof But you've known me all along I'm the difference between right and wrong I am the truth They're gonna make me a fossil like an old Steinbeck novel A souvenir lost on a shelf So in a moment of weakness don't let them come between us Or turn you into someone else Cause they'll try to spin me so you won't believe me While looking you straight in the eye And they'll try to drown me until you forsake me With a bottle of their best 90 proof But you've known me all along I'm the difference between right and wrong I am the truth And I'll set you free if you listen to me Yeah I'll set you free Cause you've known me all along I'm the difference between right and wrong I am the truth Yeah I am the truth