Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh) Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal Just laughing and gay like a clown (ooh ooh) I'm wearing my heart like a crown Pretending that you're still around Pretending I'm doing well (ooh ooh) My need is

See a man don't have to die to go to hell Well he yelled out from the back row look here preacher man We all know you're new here but you need to understand It don't really scare us when you yell and shake your fist You see we already know that hell

Life is seen more clearly through our tears Cause we all find some faith When we face our fears When my life's goin like I want God becomes an after thought And I start trying to build my Heaven here A better believer would look to the skies And shout

I may be six feet deep, but I'll still be lovin' you Baby, what we got won't ever die Can't take diamonds, can't take gold But I'll take your love with me when I go I'm gonna take it to the grave with me To the grave with me, to the grave with me to the

Walk slow and low on a tightrope Hope it lasts but you know, you never know Up high in the middle of nowhere Don't know but you know when you get there You never know Take a chance we can dance up in mid-air Feel so good, I could die, but I don't care

But you try, don't you? You try, don't you? Just wanna die, don't you, when she runs? You can't make a woman sleep alone You can't tell her nothing she don't know Take a year and go back home Where the wind comes sweeping through the plains You ain't

A bunch low lives living the high life Money burning a hole right through the pockets of holey jeans I can still remember when Grandpa died and our ship came in Daddy said he left momma and him more money than we'd ever seen And just like that we were

I will love you endlessly And even if I cry I'll be there by your side For a lifetime And I will love you endlessly And even when we die You'll be there by my side Now come, let me be your light

You give me life, you give me light You give me a reason why I say, "Give me time" You get me high when you cross my mind Yeah, who needs suicide when I feel so alive with you (yeah, yeah) And you know I would die for you Jesus, weep, baby know I would

Then we'd see the day when nobody died If everyone cared and nobody cried If everyone loved and nobody lied If everyone shared and swallowed their pride Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive Then we'd see the day, we'd see the day When nobody died From