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Time to Pretend
Time to Pretend

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Time to Pretend

Release date: 29th August 2005

From Time to PretendTrack 14:32

Lyrics

Time to Pretend

I'm feelin' rough, I'm feelin' raw
I'm in the prime of my life
Let's make some music, make some money
Find some models for wives
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars
This is our decision to live fast and die young
We've got the vision, now let's have some fun
Yeah, it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?
Forget about our mothers and our friends
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
I'll miss the playgrounds
And the animals and digging up worms
I'll miss the comfort of my mother
And the weight of the world
I'll miss my sister, miss my father,
Miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I'll miss the boredom
And the freedom and the time spent alone
But there is really nothing, nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew
The models will have children, we'll get a divorce
We'll find some more models, everything must run its course
We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end
We were fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
I said yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah

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From Time to Pretend

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Time to Pretend

30th August 2005

Track number

1

Release year

2005

1Time to Pretend
4:32
2Boogie Down
3:34
3Destrokk
3:48
4Love Always Remains
5:41

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MGMT — Loss Of Life, Pt. 2 (from Loss Of Life) [1:59]
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MGMT — Dancing in Babylon
MGMT — Kids (Thodoris Triantafillou & Mångata Projekt remix)
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MGMT — One Thing Left to Try (Matthew Dear remix)
MGMT — James (Sonic Boom remix)
MGMT — Little Dark Age (Ghost Vision remix)
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MGMT — Hand It Over (from Little Dark Age) [4:14]
MGMT — When You Die (from Little Dark Age) [4:24]
MGMT — She Works Out Too Much (from Little Dark Age) [4:38]
MGMT — Tslamp (from Little Dark Age) [4:30]
MGMT — James (from Little Dark Age) [3:53]
MGMT — One Thing Left to Try (from Little Dark Age) [4:20]
MGMT — Little Dark Age (from Little Dark Age) [5:00]
MGMT — Me and Michael (from Little Dark Age) [4:50]
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MGMT — Your Life Is a Lie
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MGMT — Alien Days
MGMT — Pursuit of Happiness (Steve Aoki remix)
MGMT — Morning Splendour (from Late Night Tales: Mgmt) [5:59]
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MGMT — Lost for Words, Pt. 2 (from Late Night Tales: Mgmt) [3:23]
MGMT — Drug Song (from Late Night Tales: Mgmt) [3:25]
MGMT — Pink Frost (from Late Night Tales: Mgmt) [3:56]
MGMT — Sparks (from Late Night Tales: Mgmt) [3:31]
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