We're Fated to Pretend

Let me tell you a story

of a girl who lost her way

she cried into the night

and she walked into the day

all ready to pretend;

nice, big smile on her face...

enter with tranquility

and leave without a trace

so no one asks her where she's gone

or what she's gone to do

while she slumps in the bathroom;

blood and tears, they flow for you...

She'll get up, clean up, cover up.

Make sure her eyes aren't red...

Walk back out, bear through it cause

it's all just in her head.

 

Soon her ruse fails to suffice.

They endlessly ask her what's wrong...

But she knows they're just acting, see,

they sing the words but hate the song.

 

One day she had enough;

locked herself away inside.

Her parents tried so hard but

still she never would confide

all the things that had gone wrong.

Who was left to take the blame?

She stayed inside her room

and hung her head in selfish shame.

Eventually, her parents,

they got mad and broke the door.

Inside they found a body,

hanging up above the floor.

They broke, fell to their knees,

and they cried, without a sound...

Beneath her dangling feet

there lay a note, upon the ground.

 

The note said, "Please don't worry,

this is better, in the end.

Fate is just a lie, because

we're fated to pretend."