This Grand Charade

You go to bed early and, darlin', I stay up late

Come to the mornin', the kids are already awake

Get 'em dressed, get 'em breakfast, out the door and on the bus

Hope they don't see these walls buildin' up between us

You put on your makeup and don't even look my way

Pass by me in the hallway like a ghost that's runnin' away

Tell me we've got dinner plans with friends at 5

And ask if maybe we could just act happy tonight

Oh, but nobody can tell

'Cause we play the part so well

Fool 'em all little-by-little, more every day

The truth is, we made a mistake

We ain't that happy couple on the wedding cake

Yeah, it's you and me darlin', just livin' this grand charade

I drive to work in this rusted-out pickup truck

Coffee steams in the holder; I'm torn between stayin' and just givin' up

Sometimes I sit in this parkin' lot and I just cry

And wonder how the hell this became our life

Oh, but nobody can tell

'Cause we play the part so well

Fool 'em all little-by-little, more every day

The truth is, we made a mistake

We ain't that happy couple on the wedding cake

Yeah, it's you and me darlin', just livin' this grand charade

We can try to stay together for our parents and for the kids

But we know now there ain't nothin' to change all of this

We can act like it ain't over, but it is

Let's do it again

Come on pretend

Hopin' nobody can tell

'Cause we play the part so well

Fool 'em all little-by-little, more every day

The truth is, we made a mistake

We ain't that happy couple on the wedding cake

Yeah, it's you and me darlin', just livin' this grand charade

Come on little darlin', we'll live in this grand charade