🎵 The Pretender // by Foo Fighters

96 ContributorsTranslationsEspañol The Pretender Lyrics “The Pretender” was a late addition to the Foo Fighters' sixth album, but once recorded soon started growing in importance, becoming the leading single off Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace and a mainstay of… Read More  [Intro] Keep you in the dark, you know they all pretend Keep you in the dark and so it all began [Verse 1] Send in your skeletons Sing as their bones go marchin' in again The need you buried deep The secrets that you keep are ever ready Are you ready? I'm finished makin' sense Done pleading ignorance, that whole defense Spinning infinity, boy The wheel is spinnin' me, it's never ending, never ending Same old story [Chorus] What if I say I'm not like the others? What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? You're the pretender What if I say I will never surrender? What if I say I'm not like the others? What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? You're the pretender What if I say that I'll never surrender? [Verse 2] In time or so I'm told I'm just another soul for sale, oh well The page is out of print We are not permanent, we're temporary, temporary Same old story [Chorus] What if I say I'm not like the others? What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? You're the pretender What if I say I will never surrender? What if I say I'm not like the others? What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? You're the pretender What if I say I will never surrender? Oh [Bridge] I'm the voice inside your head You refuse to hear I'm the face that you have to face Mirrorin' your stare I'm what's left, I'm what's right I'm the enemy I'm the hand that'll take you down Bring you to your knees So who are you? Yeah, who are you? Yeah, who are you? Yeah, who are you? (Keep you in the dark, you know they all pretend) [Chorus] What if I say I'm not like the others? What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? You're the pretender What if I say I will never surrender? What if I say I'm not like the others? What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? You're the pretender What if I say I will never surrender? [Outro] What if I say I'm not like the others? (Keep you in the dark) What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? (You know they all) You're the pretender (Pretend) What if I say I will never surrender? What if I say I'm not like the others? (Keep you in the dark) What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays? (You know they all) You're the pretender (Pretend) What if I say I will never surrender? So who are you? Yeah, who are you? Yeah, who are you?