I understand your reasoning, but it just sounds terribly awkward to me. My feeling was that he didn't want to write it as three "lie"s in a row within the same sentence - always a good idea to listen for that. In any case, it's one of those structures that distracts me and prevents me from just getting the lyrics' message. Pretty song, otherwise.
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Date: 2007-10-11 04:00 pm (UTC)