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Artist: Goodness
Canonical path: /goodness/pretender
Related lyric paths: 6
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Pretender
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Pretender
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Burn my candle at both ends
Nobody sees
That you left my heart
In pieces of misery
And now I have got to do
Some livin'
And you will not be forgiven
Strangers come and strangers
Go
I have learned enough to know
That you are
A pretender (bop, bop)
I was warned by everyone
I chose not to see
It took a fortune teller
To show me how it would be
And now I have got to do
Some livin'
And you will not be forgiven
Strangers come and strangers
Go
I have learned enough to know
That you are
A pretender
Bop bop bop bop bop bop
He is young
The sad satellite
Out on his own
No end in sight
He's leaving here tonight
Burn my candle at both ends
Everybody sees
A foolish heart embarrassment
Was all that was left me
And now I am going to do
Some livin'
You were nothing but
Pretending
The pretender
(Bop, bop, bop)
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