E                                  B
Sometimes I wish that we could all forget
E                         B
Your figure fades into a silhouette
      F#       E
But I hear you breathing
    F#     E
I'm done believing

E                                B
We're painting portraits but the canvas is blank
E                           B
If this life is a gift then who do we thank?
       F#                E
You're desperate for the answer
   F#               E
It eats at you like cancer.

E                  B          F#                E
Tonight won't ever end can we pretend, pretend, pretend
      E               B                F#                E
We'll paint the walls instead and I'll pretend, pretend, pretend again.

E                        B
Your head is filled with unproven thoughts
E                     B
twisting theories into bigger knots
      F#       E                  F#   E
and I feel you dreaming, you're done believing 

E                       B
Try to avoid us but I'm weak to the bone
E                          B
my inner compass points me to the unknown
      F#                 E
but I still keep running faster
    F#                    E
yea someday I'll find the answer

E                  B          F#                E
Tonight won't ever end can we pretend, pretend, pretend
E                     B                F#                E
We'll paint the walls instead and I'll pretend, pretend, pretend again.
E    B   F#                E
Ooooooh, pretend, pretend, pretend
      E               B                 F#                E
We'll paint the walls instead, and I'll pretend, pretend, pretend again

E           B         
I wanted to know you
         E                B
Though I still don't know myself
E                   B
I've got so much to show you
          E               B
won't you show me the way out

E                  B          F#               E
Tonight won't ever end can we pretend, pretend, pretend
E                    B           F#                E
I don't want this to end so I'll pretend, pretend, pretend again
E     B  F#                E
Ooooooh, pretend, pretend, pretend
E                  B          F#                E
Tonight won't ever end can we pretend, pretend, pretend instead

E           B
Lights turn low
E           B
Lights turn low cuz
                E        B
I don't want to see this ghost so
           F#              E
can I just pretend pretend pretend instead