Alarm goes off 5am Get up get dressed go runnin Three miles later Time to shower Gotta get ready for work Every hair in place You paint your face Gotta have a mask on to face the day Then eight o'clock jump in your car You'll stop by starbucks on the way Everybody sees the perfect life The perfect girl Everybody wants to live in your world But tell me Don't you get tired of pretending You're what they wanna see Masquerades and illusions Are making you so weak Put away all your pretenses You don't gotta pretend with me Just keep it real Live how you feel And baby let it be I see the way you look When you think no one's lookin at you You'd rather die Than start to cry And let em know you're human You treat each day Like it's a play Detached from all emotion You know your part Every line by heart You take it through the motions But every now and then Your armor cracks The truth shines through And I can see how much more there is to you Don't you get tired of pretending You're what they wanna see Masquerades and illusions Are making you so weak Put away all your pretenses You don't gotta pretend with me Just keep it real Live how you feel And baby let it be Just let go Let life be what it will You know that sooner or later, it's gonna kill you anyway You ain't gonna get out of life alive Come with me Let me set you free Of other people's expectations Leave them all behind Don't you get tired of pretending You're what they wanna see Masquerades and illusions Are making you so weak Put away all your pretenses You don't gotta pretend with me Just keep it real Live how you feel And baby let it be
