Lewis Capaldi – The Pretender

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 I will be your shoulder to cry on, I will make you laugh if you need
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 I will play the part if you say so, yeah I'll be anybody but me

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To tell you the truth I'm a mess I’m a fool, you don't know that
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And you never will, in my mind, it’s instilled not to show that

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 I spend almost all of my time, feeling like I'm falling even further behind
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And I know I’m so good at seeming like I’m not on the edge of a knife
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I'm the pretender, what can I tell you? Designed to deceive, so tell me who you want me to

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 be

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 I can wear a million faces, ’cause I don't like the one underneath
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 Always found it easy to fake it, yeah I'll be anybody but me

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To tell you the truth I'm the fraud in the room and I know that
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But you never will, in my mind, it’s instilled not to show that

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 I spend almost all of my time, feeling like I'm falling even further behind
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And I know I’m so good at seeming like I’m not on the edge of a knife
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I feel like everything I do is a lie, and all the words just further pull the wool over eyes
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I know I'm no good at being who I am away from the light
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I'm the pretender, what can I tell you? Designed to deceive, so tell me who you want me to

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 be, and I'll be, be my best impression of what you expect from
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 me, but what you don't see

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Is I spend almost all of my time, feeling like I'm falling even further behind
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I know I'm so good at seeming like I’m not on the edge of a knife
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I feel like everything I do is a lie, and all the words just further pull the wool over eyes
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I know I'm no good at being who I am away from the light

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I'm the pretender, what can I tell you and I'm an imposter but hell is a mender
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I'm the pretender, what can I tell you? Designed to deceive, so tell me who you want me to

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 be