the pretender

Lewis Capaldi

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

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

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

I can wear a million faces
Cause I don t like the one underneath
Always found it easy to fake it
Yeah, I ll be anybody but me

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

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

And I ll be
Be my best impression of what you expect from me
But what you don t see is

I spend almost all of my time
Feeling like I m falling even further behind
I know I m so good at seeming
Like I m not on the edge of a knife
I feel like everything I do is a lie
And all the words just further pull the wool over eyes
I know I m no good at being who I am away from the light
I m the pretender, what can I tell ya?
And I m an imposter, but Hell is a mender
I m the pretender, what can I tell ya?
Designed to deceive
So, tell me who you want me to be