Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Eastern High
Canonical path: /eastern-high/the-pretender
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Pretender
Read The Pretender lyrics by Eastern High on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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The Pretender
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Breathing
Tasting the air
Poison surrounds us
Storms coming near
Seeing
Watching a lie
Eyes are wide open
To live is to die
Hearing
They're speaking to you
Forget who you are
Remember to do
Feelings
Let's give 'em away
For all of 'em duties
Just in your way
Take these chains off of you
Never surrender
Fight this burden through
Become the pretender
Are we leaving now?
Suffocation is taking its toll out of here
Dreaming
Give in, never try
Leave you astray
Dreams are meant to die
Bleeding
Crawls through your skin
Awoken your senses
Calls from within
Arise, arise
Are we leaving now?
Suffocation is taking its toll out of here
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Eastern High performs "The Pretender", and this lyric page sits inside the Eastern High catalog on LyroVerse.
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