Pretend to Love me

Verse 1

I don’t need forever

I don’t need the truth

Just sit a little closer

Like you used to do

You don’t have to mean it

You don’t have to stay

Just don’t leave me empty

At the end of today

Pre-Chorus

I know your heart is somewhere else

I see it every time you breathe

But if there’s nothing left to give

Give the lie to me

Chorus

Pretend to love me

Just for tonight

Hold me like I’m something

Worth the fight

Say all the words

You don’t believe

If you can’t love me

Pretend to love me

Verse 2

I won’t ask for honesty

I won’t ask for more

I’ll take the way you say my name

Like it still hurts

You don’t have to look at me

Like I’m the one

Just don’t look through me

Like I’m already gone

Pre-Chorus

I know I’m standing in the dark

Begging for a spark I see

If your heart won’t break for me

Break me gently

Chorus

Pretend to love me

Just for tonight

Let me forget

What it’s like to be alone inside

Say you want me

Even if you don’t

If you can’t love me

Just don’t let it show

Bridge

I’m not asking for your soul

I’m not asking for your heart

Just the shape of your arms

Just the echo of a start

I’ll survive the morning

I’ll survive the truth

I just can’t survive

Knowing I never mattered to you

Final Chorus

Pretend to love me

Say my name slow

Let me believe it

Before you go

Lie to me softly

So I can breathe

If you can’t love me

Pretend to love me

Outro

Just until the hurt lets go

Just until I fall asleep