Forever Pretender Lyrics

I once fell for a girl

With flax in her hair

With eyes of blue

And a face so fair

A dance of glances

And smiles of demure

For never did I see a heart so pure

The tides of time swept my chance away

And my brightest world returned to grey

I was once sweet on a girl

Of auburn red

Listening raptly

To every word she said

Witty and wild

With a host of freckles on her nose

Thorns twist in'

As I was not the man she chose

Oh, lessons never really learned

So who am I to teach?

Oh, heart on your sleeve it only makes you bleed

So cover up, cover up

Oh, lived a boy might as well die a man

Try all you can, all you can

Forever pretender

It seems you've done wrong

Breaking up your vows

And breaking into song

You told the flaxen girl you'd always care

And you told the auburn girl you'd always be there

Where are they now?

Oh, a thousand words spoken out

But none of them meant

Oh, living in a drunken fairytale

How much values bent?

Oh, how easy it can be to dream

So stay awake, stay awake

Stay awake

Forever pretender

It seems you've done wrong

Breaking up your vows

And breaking into song

You told the flaxen girl you'd always care

And you told the auburn girl you'd always be there

Where are they now?

Will the swallows still fly south for the winter?

The trees turn to russet and gold?

Cause this ain't love its an idea

And I gotta pay for all these lies I've told

Rugged and wild like the waves of the sea

With mismatched eyes to match

Both you and me

Tell me how it feels to be so free?

An feiceann tú me? Mar feicim thú

I'm ending this for me but mainly for you

Cause a snake can't stop just biting

And a fighter can't stop fighting

And nothing sails as sweet as love to be

And nothing sinks like tragedy

Abashed and bruised

The heart will cease to beat

Deject emotion and the let the feeling fleet

So forever pretender

It seems you've done wrong

Breaking up your vows

And breaking into song

You told the flaxen girl you'd always care

You told the auburn girl you'd be there

Where are they now?

Where are you now?