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Artist: Billy Talent
Canonical path: /billy-talent/don-t-need-to-pretend
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Don't Need To Pretend
Read Don't Need To Pretend lyrics by Billy Talent on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Don't Need To Pretend
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Swimming in the dark
We bound to drift apart
And I just can't go on
Pretending we're in love
We play with matches in the rain but never learned
We try to light it but the fire never burned
You thought that love was just a casting call
(Well it's) our turn to quit before the curtain falls
Sing out!
Don't need to pretend to love me
You don't need to pretend to want me
You don't need to pretend to need me
We just never were meant to
Am I wrong? Am I right?
Or have I lost my mind?
Lost my mind
Now I dance around her heart
Like an actor plays the part
I hit the stage and I get blinded by the lights
I read the script but I just can't recite the lines
You thought that love was just a casting call
(Well it's) our turn to quit before the curtain falls
Sing out!
Don't need to pretend to love me
We just never were meant to ever be
You don't need to pretend to love me
We just never were meant to
Am I wrong? Am I right?
Or have I lost my mind?
Am I wrong? Am I right?
Or have I lost my mind?
You thought that love was just a casting call
(Well it's) our turn to quit before the curtain falls
Sing out!
Don't need to pretend to love me
You don't need to pretend to want me
You don't need to pretend to need me
We just never were meant to
Am I wrong? Am I right?
Or have I lost my mind?
Sing out!
Don't need to pretend to love me
We just never were meant to ever be
You don't need to pretend to love me
We just never were meant to
Am I wrong? Am I right?
Or have I lost my mind?
So get on with your life
'Cause we're just wasting time
Am I wrong? Am I right?
Or have I lost my mind?
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