Fairytales Tell Tales

Let's pretend we're not needy

Let's pretend our hearts still beat

Let's pretend we fall in love tonight

Clumsy enough to fall for anything

We'll stumble on our words

We'll spill our guts on creaking bar stools

Below the neon blue

Low lives hiding in dives

There's no feeling in drinking

And sleeping with strangers

Ghosts passing through bedrooms unaware

A faint reflection on the barback's mirror

A face I never knew whispering

Please, don't be a stranger to me

Who are you if you're alone?

You're no good at pretending

All my plays have tragic endings

You wish I was a fairytale

This frog will never change anything

Just pretend that you're in love

That scolding Sun is bound to come up eventually

So who is it that whispers in your ear?

A haunting voice blows in through the window

There's no feeling floating over beds

A needy pleading apparition

Crying: Who am I if I'm alone?

I hardly exist at all

Let's pretend that we

Don't need anything

Anymore from anyone

I don't want to feel

Anything anymore

Let's just pretend

We'll live happily ever after