Key: D
C
G
Bm
C
C
G
Its four in the afternoon
Bm
C
I'm on a flight leaving LA
C
G
Trying to think about my life
Bm
C
My youth scattered along the highway
Am
Em
Hotel rooms in headlights
G
D
I've made a living with a song
Em
C
Just a guitar as my companion
G
D
Wanting desperately to be loved
Em
D
G
Fame is filled with spoiled children
Em
D
G
Em
They grow fat on fantasy
D
G
I guess that's why I'm leaving
D
I crave reality
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G
C
D
G
So goodbye Alice in Wonderland
C
D
Goodbye yellow brick road
G
C
D
G
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
Em
C
I did not find paradise
G
It was only a reflection
D
Of my lonely mind searching
Em???
Em
D
G
C
Bm
C
D
Em
Dreaming is a good thing
D
Cause it brings new things to life
G
Pretending is an ending
C
That perpetuates a lie
Bm
Forgetting what you are
C
D
Seeing for what you've been told
Em
D
And growing up is not the answer to dreaming
G
C
Its being able to understand the difference between
Bm
C
D
The ones you can hold and the ones that you've been sold
Em
D
G
Em
Truth is stranger than fiction
D
G
Em
This is my chance to get it right
D
G
Life is much better
D
Without all of your pretty lies
G
C
D
G
So goodbye Alice in Wonderland
C
D
You can keep your yellow brick road
G
C
D
G
There is a difference between dreaming and pretending
Em
C
That was not love in your eyes
It was only a reflection
G
D
C
Of my lonely mind wanting
It was only a reflection
G
D
Of my lonely mind wishing
C
Em
(upward
That you were what was missing from my life