She's been holding on too long
Hoping i'm gonna change
Giving it up just a little bit more
Each time i come home
Looking and acting strange
Putting her down for putting up with me

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Be as you are
As you see as i am i am
Be as you are
As you see as i am i am

Do you think you might improve me
Trying to take control
Watching every little thing i do
Just like a bleeding movie
Just like a leading role
Mama, this ain't me and i don't
Believe that's you

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First you make believe
I believe the things
That you make believe
And i'm bound to let you down
Then it's i who have been deceiving
Purposely misleading
And all along you believed in me

So we circle around one another
Playing i guessing game
Strangers at this masquerade
Pretending to know each other
We strain to catch a name
And never see the mistakes we must have made

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