Pretend

(Reprise)
Composed by Lights
Arranged for piano by gcr

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child to feel like a kid a gain. It gets like a pri son in the bo dy I'm liv ing in.

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'Cause ev ery one's watch ing and quick to start talk ing. I'm lo sing my in no cence. Wish

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I were a lit tle girl with out the weight of the world. It would be nice to start o ver a

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gain! Be- fore we were men. I'd give; I'd bend. Let's play pre tend.


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Re mem ber the time we had so da for wine and we got by on

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gra ti tude? The worst they could do to you was check your at ti tude.

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Yeah, when fights were for fun? We had wa ter in guns and a place we could call our own?


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How we lost hold of home, I guess I'l ne ver know! It would be

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nice to start o ver a gain! Be- fore we were men. I'd give; I'd bend. Let's play

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pre tend. And when it's the end, our lives will make sense. We'll love, we'll


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bend; let's play pre tend. Let's play pre tend!

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It's not gon na be long be fore we're all gone with no thing to show for them.
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Stop ta king lives; come on, let's all grow up a gain.

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