How To Pretend

Breathe in breathe now

You have to calm down

Let me show you somewhere we could hide

We can stay in here until sunrise

Moving forward

Step by step once more

Follow my instructions you'll be fine

This will only hurt for a short time

With promises of freedom

I would never lie to you

Only speaking the way you do too

How great that it must be

To walk outside and see

Others just like you and not like me

I am not like you

I can't do the things that you do

No matter how desperately I want to

When you look into my eyes you see

A mirage of something trustworthy

I'm not your enemy

No more anxiety

Though you're right to be wary

'Cause I know how to pretend

How to pretend

Breathe in breathe out

I'm lost in here now

And of course I know that

There's no way I can turn back

I'm left in the dark

To play my part

Follow every lie you feed me

As they lead to more and more agony

Are we on the same team after all this time?

Are we really feeling a pain of the same kind?

Watching from the outside

You can't see all the things I do

You're a circus monster

And now's your cue

You were right

When you said that we're not the same

Because unlike you

I can feel pain

When I look into your eyes I see

A facade you are not trustworthy

You are my enemy

Faking your empathy

I was right to be wary

When you know how to pretend

How to pretend

When you look into my eyes you see

A mirage of something trustworthy

I'm not your enemy

No more anxiety

Though you're right to be wary

'Cause I know you're not good at pretending

Come dance and we'll be prismatic

I'm not falling for all your tricks

Let's out on a show before the curtain falls

(Before the curtain falls) I won't take a bow

It's time our finale's now

This mangled freakshow is where we end it all (is where we start it all)