Let's pretend we're not needy   Let's pretend our hearts still beat   Let's pretend we fall in love tonight   Clumsy enough to fall for anything      We'll stumble on our words   We'll spill our guts on creaking bar stools   Below the neon blue      Low lives hiding in dives    There's no feeling in drinking    Sleeping with strangers       Ghosts passing through bedrooms unaware   A faint reflection on the barback's mirror   A face I never knew whispering    "Please don't be a stranger to me   Who are you if you're alone?"      You're no good at pretending   All my plays have tragic endings   You wish I was a fairy tale    This frog will never change anything    Just pretend that you're in love   That scolding sun is bound to come up eventually      So who is it that whispers in your ear?   A haunting voice blows in through the window       There's no feeling floating over beds   A needy, pleading apparition   Crying, "Who am I if I'm alone?    I hardly exist at all   Let's pretend that we don't need    Anything anymore from anyone   I don't want to feel anything anymore    Let's just pretend"      We'll live happily ever after