Pretend

Once in a while

I act like a child

To feel like a kid again

It gets like a prison in

The body I'm living in

Cause everyone's watching

Quick to start talking

I'm losing my innocence

Wish I were a little girl

Without the weight of the world

It would be nice

To start over again,

Before we were men

I'd give, I'd bend

Let's play pretend

Remember the time

We had soda for wine

And got by on gratitude

The worst they could do to you

Was check your attitude

Yeah, when fights were for fun

We had water in guns

And a place we could call our own

How we lost hold of home

I guess I'll never know

It would be nice

To start over again

Before we were men

I'd give, I'd bend

Let's play pretend

And when it's the end

our lives will make sense

We'd love, We'd give, We'd bend

Let's play pretend

It's not going to be long

before we're all gone

with nothing to show for them

Stop taking lives, Come on

Let's all grow up again

It would be nice

to start over again

before we were men

I'd give, I'd bend

Let's play pretend

And when it's the end

Our lives will make sense

And love, even

Let's play... pretend.