Too Kind to Be Kind Lyrics | R.J. Sloane
Too Kind to Be Kind is an outlaw gospel ballad by R.J. Sloane about the cowardice that hides inside conflict-avoidance and calls itself kindness.
Some betrayals don't come from cruelty. They come from someone who stayed quiet, smoothed things over, and let the truth go unsaid because saying it was harder than staying liked. This is a song for anyone who's ever realized their silence cost someone else everything.
Saw you heading for the ditch
Kept my mouth shut tight
Nodded at the poison words
Swore you had the right
Smiled while the fire caught
Held the gasoline
Prettiest polite betrayal
You have ever seen
Greased the rail
Swung the gate
Swallowed down the warning
'Til it was too late
Too kind to tell the truth
Too sweet to draw the line
Patted you upon the back
While robbing you stone blind
Fed the sickness with a spoon
Watched your knuckles white
Left you bleeding in the dirt
Too kind to be kind
Watched you hollow out your chest
Drink the bitter well
Handed you a clean spade
To dig your private hell
Rather watch a brother drop
Than break an easy truce
Patting down the velvet knot
Around a hanging noose
Greased the rail
Swung the gate
Swallowed down the warning
'Til it was too late
Too kind to tell the truth
Too sweet to draw the line
Patted you upon the back
While robbing you stone blind
Fed the sickness with a spoon
Watched your knuckles white
Left you bleeding in the dirt
Too kind to be kind
Wounds of a friend
Cut down deep
Kisses of an enemy
Put the soul to sleep
Coward's mercy
Never pays the toll
Saved my own clean name
And damned your soul
Too kind to tell the truth
Too sweet to draw the line
Patted you upon the back
While robbing you stone blind
Fed the sickness with a spoon
Watched your knuckles white
Left you bleeding in the dirt
Too kind to be kind
Too kind to tell the truth
Too sweet to draw the line
Patted you upon the back
While robbing you stone blind
Fed the sickness with a spoon
Watched your knuckles white
Left you bleeding in the dirt
Too kind to be kind
Cheered you to the ledge
Left you cold
Too kind to be kind
Smile for the grave
Nice all the way down
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