It's four in the afternoon I'm on a flight leaving Trying to think about my life My youth scattered along the highway
Hotel rooms and headlines I've made a living with a song Just a guitar as my companion Wanting desperately to belong
Fame is filled with spoiled children They grow on fantasy guess that's why I'm leaving I crave reality
[Chorus] So goodbye Alice in Wonderland Goodbye yellow brick road There is a difference between dreaming and pretending I did not find paradise It was only a reflection of my mind wanting What´s been missing in my life
I'm embarassed to say the rest is a rock and roll cliche I hit the bottom when I the top I never knew it was you who was breaking my heart I thought you had to love me But you did not
Yes a heart can hallucinate If it's completely starved for love It can even turn monsters angels from above
You forged my love like a weapon And turned it against me like a knife You broke my last heartstring But you up my eyes
Repeat Chorus:
Growing up is not the absence of dreaming It's being able understand the difference between The ones you can hold and the ones that you've been sold
Dreaming is a good thing cause it brings things to life But pretending is an ending that perpetuates a lie Forgetting what you are seeing for what you've been
Truth is stranger than fiction This is my chance to get it right Life is much better without all of those pretty lies