Barbra Streisand targets Trump in new song ‘Don’t lie to me’

Music legend Barbra Streisand has released her own diss track targeting President Donald Trump in a song entitled ‘Don’t Lie to Me’.  

The 76-year-old singer’s new hit, released Thursday, is her first song since 2005 where she vents on the political climate under the Trump administration. 

Streisand said she initially aimed to include ‘very subtle’ references to Trump, but confessed ‘I just went ballistic’ in writing the lyrics.

From the first words, the song targets Trump’s integrity saying: ‘Why can’t you just tell me the truth? It’s hard to believe the things you say.’

She said she was listening to the news of the Trump administration and was inspired to write the song to reflect today's political climate

Barbra Streisand, 76, has released a single entitled ‘Don’t Lie to Me’ bashing President Donald Trump singing: ‘How do you sleep and the world keeps turning?’

She continues: ‘How do you win if we all lose?/ You change the facts to justify/ Your lips move but your words get in the way.’

Her chorus questions the nation’s leader and pleads for change saying: ‘How do you sleep and the world keeps turning? All that we built has come undone/ How do you sleep when the world is burning?/ Everyone answers to someone/ Don’t lie to me.’

The song will be featured on her new album ‘Walls’ out on November 2.

‘I just can’t stand what’s going on. His assault on our democracy, our institutions, our founders – I think we’re in a fight. … We’re in a war for the soul of America,’ the Oscar, Grammy and Emmy winner said.

The song released Thursday begins saying: 'Why can't you just tell me the truth? It's hard to believe the things you say' bashing the president. The album's cover art pictured above

The song released Thursday begins saying: ‘Why can’t you just tell me the truth? It’s hard to believe the things you say’ bashing the president. The album’s cover art pictured above

The artist and activist said she felt moved to write the original track to reflect what’s happening today.   

Don’t Lie to Me Lyrics 

Why can’t you just tell me the truth?/ Hard to believe the things you say/ Why can’t you feel the tears I cry today, cry today, cry today 

How do you win if we all lose? / You change the facts to justify/ Your lips move but your words get in the way, in the way, in the way 

Kings and queens, crooks and thieves, you don’t see the forest for the trees/ Head and heart on our knees, you can’t see what we all see

How do you sleep when the world keeps turning?/ All that we built has come undone/ How do you sleep when the world is burning?/ Everyone answers to someone

Don’t lie to me/ Don’t lie to me/ You lie to me. Don’t lie to me/ Don’t lie to me/ You lie to me

You can build towers of bronze and gold/ You can think castles in the sky/ You can use smoke and mirrors old cliches not today not today not today

Kings and queens, crooks and thieves, you don’t see the forest for the trees/ Head and heart on our knees, you can’t see what we all see

How do you sleep when the world keeps turning?/ All that we built has come undone/ How do you sleep when the world is burning?/ Everyone answers to someone

Don’t lie to me/ Don’t lie to me/ You lie to me. Don’t lie to me/ Don’t lie to me/ You lie to me 

Can’t you see I’m crying?/ Can’t you see we’re crying?/ Where’s the new horizon?/ Where’s the new horizon?

How do you sleep? How do you sleep? 

Don’t lie to me/ Don’t lie to me/ You lie to me. Don’t lie to me/ Don’t lie to me/ You lie to me

Everyone answers to someone 

 

She said the words came to her as she was listening to the news during a road trip, which ‘was making me sick, listening to lies, listening to things that are such craziness.’  

‘I wanted to talk about the things that were making me feel so sad, heartbroken. I’m a kind of fierce American. I don’t know who we are anymore as a country,’ Streisand said. 

‘Are we embracing people who flee oppression? Or are we separating children from parents, putting them in cages? I don’t know if people care about the planet, the survival of the planet. Do they care about clean air? Clean water? Clean food? If they do, how could they vote for somebody like Trump, who believes it’s a hoax?’ she added.

Other song on her upcoming 11-track album also feature political themes and reworks classics like ‘Imagine’, ‘What a Wonderful World’, and ‘What the World Needs Now’.

Streisand says she ‘kind of dedicates this album to the young people who are speaking out’.   

‘I’m frightened for this country. And yet, I have hope,’ Streisand said. 

‘It’s important that people vote. It’s important that people believe in the power of their own voice and how much that changes things. It’s like the kids speaking out, the Parkland kids,’ she added.

‘It’s easy to feel powerless now but we’re not if each of us speak up and get out and vote,’ Streisand said. 

Speaking to Billboard, she called Trump the ‘Liar in Chief, the Groper in Chief’, adding the song is her form of dissent.

‘This way my way to do my record, because what else could I think about? It’s my protest, in a sense, about this unprecedented time in our history. What it says about America,’ she said. 

‘We have to give up the electoral college system, that’s what I know. I think people should vote for the president of the United Status – the popular vote should count. Give people a voice; one vote, one voice,’ she added.



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