It's an illusion Can't believe what you hear Don't believe what you read Here and gone in a day Not what it seems this American dream Just drifting away After all that we've seem A complete waste of time Just a nursery rhyme

Somebody lurks in the shadows Kim and Jessie They have a secret world in the twilight Kids outside worlds They are crazy about romance and illusion Somebody whispers Yeah yeah yeah Dream dressed in blue It's all they need for now

I don't know I've been walking on These streets so long Where they're Calling me anymore But I think I must have seen a ghost If it's my illusions That keep me alive

Let it out and if it's true, it will flow out of you It's like a river in your mind Because the truth will never fall it's been around before us all and it's like a signature on your mind We deserve more than lies and illusions way more than what we're

From up and down, and still somehow I've looked at life from both sides now It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all Rows and floes of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds

It's a fatal illusion Lost inside the system, locked away without a key No one will ever miss a menace to society A gross lack of potential, bad decisions made in spite A touchy hairpin trigger and such a wasted life Trying to break the mold of a broken

Love and marriage, love and marriage Go together like a horse and carriage You can't have one without the other Try, try, try to separate them It's an illusion Try, try, try, and you will only come To this conclusion Dad was told by mother This I tell

(Could it be that) it's just an illusion (Putting me back) in all this confusion (Could it be that) it's just an illusion (now) It's just an illusion, illusion, illusion Illusion, illusion, illusion, illusion Searching for a destiny that's mine There's

Can we get together? There's too much confusion I really, I really wanna be with you I hope you, I hope you feel the same way too It's an illusion Come on, check it out with me Baby we can do it We can do it alright Do you believe in love at first sight?

My life, my life Makes me wanna run away There's no place to go No place to go All the confusion It's an illusion like a movie Got nowhere to go Nowhere to run and hide No matter how hard I try