Текст песни What Is Truth - Live - Johnny Cash

Well, go ahead and do it now, Froy
While we're on a...
Uh, though you're runnin' that direction
About today

I know our President is
Is concerned about the problem of drugs in this country
As most any problem we could have
Because it's a reagent problem

'Course, um, I guess I might be qualified
To say a word or two about drugs
Haven't been a, one of those crooked roads
A time or two

Well, you know, I tried to...
In order to say something to somebody that might be meaningful
You gotta, kinda get them on your side

So, I had this words of poem that I wrote
To the youth of America
It was a 12-verse poem which have four verses of it
And made a reccording out of it

It's on their side
Which was the way I was feeling at that time
Maybe I was trying to be a kid again
And the lonely voice of youth cries
"What is truth?"

The old man turned off the radio
Said, "Where did all of the old songs go?
Kids sure play funny music these days
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
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?"

Little boy of three sittin' 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?"

Young man of 17 in Sunday school
Being taught the golden rule
By the time another year's gone around
May be his turn to lay his life down
So, can you blame the voice of youth for asking
"What is truth?"

Young man sittin' on the witness stand
Man with the book says, "Raise your hand
Repeat after me, "I solemnly swear"
Man looks down at his long hair

Although the young man solemnly swore
Nobody seems to hear anymore
So, 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?"

Young girl dancing to the latest beat
Found new ways to move her feet
Young man speaking in the city square
I be trying to say that he really cares

The other ones that you're calling wild
Are gonna be the leaders in a little while
This whole world's wakin' to a new born day
And I solemnly swear that it'll be their way

We better help that voice of youth find
"What is truth?"
And the lonely voice of youth cries
"What is truth?"