I'm so sorry when I told you   Those smokestacks were making clouds for the sky   But if I told you the truth   It would just bring so many tears   So many tears to your eyes      I said it that's the way it is   And the way it's gonna be   If that's the way it is   I'd rather make believe      Oh remember sitting on that beach   Watching all the lightning fill up the sky   Well you got so scared   Until I told you it was just fireworks like the fourth of July      I said it that's the way it is   And the way it's gonna be   If that's the way it is   I'd rather make believe      I Know one day you'll be old enough   To know my stories I told are not true   But when you have your own children   And they ask you questions   You'll know, you'll know just what to do      You'll say it that's the way it is   And the way it's gonna be   If that's the way it is   I'd rather make believe   Oh that's the way it is   And the way it's gonna be   If that's the way it is   I'd rather make believe