What Is Truth - Johnny Cash

作词：J.R. Cash

作曲：J.R. Cash

The old man turned off the radio

Said Where did all of the old songs go

Kids sure play funny music these days

They play it in the strangest ways

Said it looks to me like

They've all gone wild

It was peaceful back when I was a child

Well man could it be that the girls and boys

Are trying to be heard above your noise

And the lonely voice of youth cries

What is truth

A little boy of three sitting on the floor

Looks up and says Daddy what is war

Son that's when people fight and die

The little boy of three says Daddy why

A young man of seventeen in Sunday school

Being taught the golden rule

And by the time another year has gone around

It may be his turn to lay his life down

Can you blame the voice of youth for asking

What is truth

Young man sitting on the witness stand

The man with the book says Raise your hand

Repeat after me I solemnly swear

The man looked down at his long hair

And although the young man solemnly swore

Nobody seems to hear anymore

And it didn't really matter

If the truth was there

It was the cut of his clothes

And the length of his hair

And the lonely voice of youth cries

What is truth

The young girl dancing to the latest beat

Has found new ways to move her feet

The young man speaking in the city square

Is trying to tell somebody that he cares

Yeah the ones that you're calling wild

Are going to be the leaders in a little while

This old world's wakin' to a new born day

And I solemnly swear that it'll be their way

You better help the voice of youth find

What is truth

And the lonely voice of youth cries

What is truth