The Pretender

[Intro]

Keep you in the dark

You know they all pretend

Keep you in the dark

And so it all began

[Verse 1]

Send in your skeletons

Sing as their bones go marching in again

They need you buried deep

The secrets that you keep are at the ready

Are you ready?

I'm finished making sense

Done pleading ignorance, that whole defense

Spinning infinity, boy

The wheel is spinning me

It's never ending, never ending

Same old story

[Chorus]

What if I say I'm not like the others?

What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?

You're the pretender

What if I say I will never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?

What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?

You're the pretender

What if I say that I'll never surrender?

[Verse 2]

In time or so I'm told

I'm just another soul for sale, oh well

The page is out of print

We are not permanent, we're

Temporary, temporary

Same old story

[Chorus]

What if I say I'm not like the others?

What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?

You're the pretender

What if I say I will never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?

What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?

You're the pretender

What if I say I will never surrender?

[Bridge]

I'm the voice inside your head

You refuse to hear

I'm the face that you have to face

Mirroring your stare

I'm what's left

I'm what's right

I'm the enemy

I'm the hand that'll take you down

Bring you to your knees

So who are you?

Yeah, who are you?

Yeah, who are you?

Yeah, who are you?

[Breakdown]

Keep you in the dark

You know they all pretend

[Chorus]

What if I say I'm not like the others?

What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?

You're the pretender

What if I say I will never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?

What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?

You're the pretender

What if I say I will never surrender?

[Outro]

What if I say I'm not like the others?

(Keep you in the dark)

What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?

(You know they all)

You're the pretender

(Pretend)

What if I say I will never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?

(Keep you in the dark)

What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays?

(You know they all)

You're the pretender

(Pretend)

What if I say I will never surrender?

So who are you?

Yeah, who are you?

Yeah, who are you?