Can't believe what you hear   Don't believe what you read   Hard to see what you need these days   Can't believe that it's true   You know we had so much to do   How come you treat me this way      Hey, you, why don't you play by the rules   Play by the rules   You, just, you must take me   Take me for some kind of fool      It's an illusion (it's an illusion)   Here and gone in a day   Not what it seems this American dream   Just drifting away      It's an illusion (it's an illusion)   After all that we've seen   A complete waste of time   Just a nursery rhyme   Can't believe that you're leaving      Can't believe what you hear   Don't believe what you read   Hard to see what you need - these days   They'll feed you the facts (oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh)   Leave you like a kid on a railroad track (oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh)   Our reason is fading away (oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh)      OK, not much left I can do   I can do   You, just, you just took me   Took me for some kinda fool      It's an illusion (it's an illusion)   Here and gone in a day   Not what it seems this American dream   Just drifting away      It's an illusion (it's an illusion)   After all that we've seen   It's a complete waste of time   Just a nursery rhyme   Can't believe that you're leaving      It's an illusion (it's an illusion)      It's an illusion (it's an illusion)      It's an illusion