The Pretender

	  		
Verse 
Am 
Keep you in the dark 
                D/F#     F 
You know they all pretend 
Am 
Keep you in the dark 
          D/F#   F 
And so it all began 
Am 
Send in your skeletons 
Am                               D/F#    F 
Sing as their bones go marching in... again 
Am 
The need you buried deep 
Am                               D/F# 
The secrets that you keep are ever ready 
F 
Are you ready? 
Am 
I'm finished making sense 
Am 
D/F#one pleading ignorance 
        D/F#   F 
That whole defense 
Am 
Spinning infinity, boy 
Am 
The wheel is spinning me 
       D/F# 
It's never-ending, never-ending 
F 
Same old story 


Am 
What if I say I'm not like the others? 
Am                                   D/F# 
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? 
  D/F# 
You're the pretender 
F 
What if I say that I'll never surrender? 
Am 
What if I say I'm not like the others? 
Am                                   D/F# 
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? 
  D/F# 
You're the pretender 
F 
What if I say that I'll never surrender? 


Verse 
Am 
In time or so i'm told 
Am                           D/F#           F 
I'm just another soul for sale... oh, well 
Am 
The page is out of print 
Am 
We are not permanent 
D/F# 
We're temporary, temporary 
F 
Same old story 

 
Am 
What if I say I'm not like the others? 
Am                                    D/F# 
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? 
 D/F# 
You're the pretender 
F 
What if I say that I'll never surrender? 
Am 
What if I say I'm not like the others? 
Am                                    D/F# 
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? 
 D/F# 
You're the pretender 
F 
What if I say that I'll never surrender? 
Am 
I'm the voice inside your head 
C 
You refuse to hear 
Am 
I'm the face that you have to face 
C 
Mirrored in your stare 
Am 
I'm what's left, I'm what's right 
C 
I'm the enemy 
Am 
I'm the hand that will take you down 
C 
Bring you to your knees 
D/F# 
So who are you? 
F 
Yeah, who are you? 
D/F# 
Yeah, who are you? 
F 
Yeah, who are you? 
Am 
Keep you in the dark 
               D/F#     F 
You know they all pretend 

 Am 
What if I say I'm not like the others? 
Am                                   D/F# 
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? 
 D/F# 
You're the pretender 
F 
What if I say that I'll never surrender? 
Am 
What if I say I'm not like the others? 
Am                                   D/F# 
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? 
 D/F# 
You're the pretender 
F 
What if I say that I'll never surrender? 
Am 
What if I say I'm not like the others? 
Am                                   D/F# 
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? 
 D/F# 
You're the pretender 
F 
What if I say that I'll never surrender? 
Am 
What if I say I'm not like the others? 
Am                                    D/F# 
What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? 
 D/F# 
You're the pretender 
F 
What if I say that I'll never surrender? 
D/F#           F 
So who are you? 
D/F#              F 
Yeah, who are you? 
D/F#               F  Am 
Yeah, who are you?