When I Pretend

Thoughts of you keep running through my head

Images I just want to forget

I look in the mirror and put on a happy face

But nobody sees it, and I don't believe it

I bought into every word you said

I never thought it's something I'd regret

I look at you now and wonder who I see

I'm lost in a frenzy, and it's never ending

The way we used to talk all night

I still get butterflies

When I go there again

Oh, I see the way you used to smile

If only for a while

But only if I pretend

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If I could draw the world I want to see

I know just how I picture it to be

I stand here alone and know that it all was real

You say you don't need it, I know you don't mean it

And I don't believe it

The way we used to talk all night

I still get butterflies

When I go there again

I see the way you used to smile

If only for a while

But only if I pretend

Oh, I'm where I want to be

Don't you wake me from this dream

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, yeah, yeah

When I go there again

Oh, I see the way you used to smile

If only for a while

The way we used to talk all night

I still get butterflies

When I go there again, again

Oh, I see the way you used to smile

If only for a while

But only if I pretend

Only if I pretend

Oh, oh