It is four in the afternoon
I am on a flight leaving L A
Trying to figure out my life
My youth scattered along the highway
Hotel rooms and headlines
I've made a living with a song
Guitar as my companion
Wanting desperately to belong
Fame is filled with spoiled children
We grow fat on fantasy
I guess that is why I am leaving
I crave reality
So goodbye alice in wonderland
Goodbye yellow brick road
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
I did not find paradise
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting
For what was missing in my life
I am embarrassed to say
the rest is a rock and roll cliche
I hit the bottom when I reached the top
I never knew it was you
who was breaking my heart
I thought you had to love me
But you did not
Yes a heart can hallucinate
If it is completely starved for love
It can even turn monsters into
Angels from above
You forged my love just like a weapon
And turned it against me like a knife
You broke my last heartstring
But you opened up my eyes
So goodbye alice in wonderland
Goodbye yellow brick road
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
That was not love in your eyes
It was only a reflection of my lonely mind searching
For what was missing in my life
And growing up is not an absence of dreaming
It is being able to understand the difference between
The ones you can hold and the ones
that you've been sold
And dreaming is a good thing
Because it brings new things to life
But pretending is an ending
That perpetuates a lie
Forgrtting what you are
Seeing for what you've been told
Truth is stranger than fiction
And this is my chance to get it right
Life is much better
without all of those pretty lies
So goodbye alice in wonderland
You can keep your yellow brick road
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
These are not tears in my eyes
They are only a reflection of my lonely mind finding
They are only a reflection of my lonely mind finding
I've found what's missing in my life