Pretender Lyrics

How do you live with yourself

Knowing you're a liar?

Or has it not occurred to you to tell the truth?

Secrets are one thing

But you're spinning fiction

And sooner or later it'll all catch up to you

A sigh of relief when they all believe

I wonder what you'd do

If someone asked the question

Do you have the right

To spell your name like integrity

If it's not how you live your life?

Just standing here the answer's clear

But doubts might haunt your mind

As long as you're alive

By now you must realize

Though you refuse to be transparent

Everyone around you sees right through

A promise means nothing if you lack conviction

And sooner or later it'll all catch up to you

Trapped in your cancerous delusions of grandeur

And after all this time

You still don't have an answer

Do you have the right

To spell your name like integrity

If it's not how you live your life?

Just standing here the answer's clear

But doubts might haunt your mind

As long as you're alive

IF YOU CAN'T KEEP YOUR STORY STRAIGHT

STUCK IN A LIE WITH NO END

HOW CAN YOU EVER FIND PEACE

IF ALL YOU EVER DO IS PRETEND?

Do you have the right

To spell your name like integrity

If it's not how you live your life?

Just standing here the answer's clear

But doubts might haunt your mind

As long as you're alive