When I pretend

Everything is what I want it to be

I look exactly like what you had always wanted to see

When I pretend

I can forget about the criminal I am

Stealing second after second just 'cause I know I can / but

I can't pretend this is the way it will stay / I'm just

Trying to bend the truth

I can't pretend i'm who you want me to be

So I'm



Lying my way from you



[No / No turning back now]

I wanna be pushed aside

So let me go

[No / No turning back now]

Let me take back my life

I'd rather be all alone

[No turning back now]

Anywhere on my own

'Cause I can see

[No / No turning back now]

The very worst part of you

Is me



I remember what they taught to me

Remember condescending talk of who I ought to be

Remember listening to all of that and this again

So I pretended up a person who was fitting in

And now you think this person really is me and I'm

[Trying to bend the truth]

But the more I push

The more I'm pulling away

'Cause I'm



Lying my way from you



This isn't what I wanted to be

I never thought that what I said

Would have you running from me

Like this



The very worst part of you

The very worst part of you

Is me