Ruining My Pretending

(album: Drive North - 2016)

They'll never be a day when reality can shut me up
I like to think and believe in how I was brought up
I'm part of a people, a people of today
Of stories young and old and the people those portray

There are those who sit and listen, to observe and drink it in
There are those who just can't taste it, and they just skip to the end
Well, me, I'm just a fool, who puts himself in that atmosphere
But at least I hear the emotions, and at least I feel the emotions

It's just a story, we all know the feeling,
You don't believe it, you're ruining my pretending
It's just a story, we all know the feeling,
You don't believe it, you're ruining my pretending

Shout out to the folks who grew up to live around
Those who are different and those who hear the sounds
Of that art that speaks to them, whether or not they agree with it
It still got a chance to speak before some asshole said away with it

There are those who sit and listen, to observe and drink it in
There are those who just can't taste it, and they just skip to the end
Well, me, I'm just a fool, who puts himself in that atmosphere
But at least I hear the emotions, and at least I feel the emotions

It's just a story, we all know the feeling,
You don't believe it, you're ruining my pretending
It's just a story, we all know the feeling,
You don't believe it, you're ruining my pretending
It's just a story, we all know the feeling,
You don't believe it, you're ruining my pretending
It's just a story, we all know the feeling,
You don't believe it, you're ruining my pretending

Cause some look out the window when the moon is getting high
And some look at the walls when there's fireworks outside
But me, I'm just a fool, me, I'm just a fool
And me, I'm just a fool, me, I'm just a fool

It's just a story, we all know the feeling,
You don't believe it, you're ruining my pretending
It's just a story, we all know the feeling,
You don't believe it, you're ruining my pretending
It's just a story, we all know the feeling,
You don't believe it, you're ruining my pretending
It's just a story, we all know the feeling,
You don't believe it, you're ruining my pretending

You're ruining my pretending
You're ruining my pretending
You're ruining my pretending
You're ruining my pretending