If you really gotta know I'm not doing so good
Turned out to hurt more than I thought it would

Cause I
Just can't handle losing you again
But the last thing I want is just to be your friend
Been through this same thing time and time again
Let's pretend

Let's pretend everythings fine
Put on our fake smiles and keep wasting our time
Let's pretend we're fine
Go out in style and come home in denial
Let's pretend we're fine

If you really gotta know I'm not doin so good
(ah)
Hurt me way more than I thought it could

Cause I
Just can't handle losing you again
But the last thing I want is just to be your friend
Been through this same thing time and time again
Let's pretend (pretend)

Let's pretend everythings fine
Put on our fake smiles and keep wasting our time
Let's pretend we're fine
Go out in style and come home in denial
Let's pretend we're fine

Lie . . . to ourselves
(if they don't look closer then they all believe it)
Lie . . . to everyone else
(we can hold hands and we'll know that we're friends)

I can't take anymore of the make believe romance
It's killing my make believe heart (killing my make believe heart)
But I'd rather pretend we're together than know we're apart

Let's pretend everything's fine
Put on our fake smiles and keep wasting our time
Let's pretend we're fine
Go out in style and come home in denial
Let's pretend we're fine
(if they don't look close then they all believe it)
Let's pretend we're fine
(we can hold hands and we'll know that we're friends)
Let's pretend we're fine

[V1:]
The deeper you get, the farther you fall down
The closer I get, the more you dissolve

[Pre-Chorus:]
You're lost inside, your pale addictions
Bury you, with the demons in the ash

[Chorus:]
Can't heal you, don't want to
cause you can't save your-fuckin'-self
Can't heal you, don't need to
cause you won't save yourself

[V2:]
You are the one who made the decision
stuck in a prison, shattered and broken
I am the one who, expected to heal you, save you from drowning in your endless nightmare
Blessed be, the disillusioned
The banished misfit and the cursed hollow son

[Chorus:]
Can't heal you, I don't want to
cause you can't save yourself
Can't help you, don't need to
cause you won't save yourself

[Pre-Chorus:]
We're taught to perish but fade away
Become the haunted and die as slaves

[Chorus:]
Can't heal you, I don't want to
cause you can't save yourself
Can't help you, don't need to
cause you won't save yourself
Can't heal you, don't want to
cause you can't save your-fuckin'-self
Can't heal you, don't need to
cause you won't save yourself