Lyrics:

''The Pretender''**lf****lf**I''m going to rent myself a house**lf**In the shade of the freeway**lf**I''m going to pack my lunch in the morning**lf**And go to work each day**lf**And when the evening rolls around**lf**I''ll go on home and lay my body down**lf**And when the morning light comes streaming in**lf**I''ll get up and do it again**lf**Amen**lf**Say it again**lf**Amen**lf****lf**I want to know what became of the changes**lf**We waited for love to bring**lf**Were they only the fitful dreams**lf**Of some greater awakening**lf**I''ve been aware of the time going by**lf**They say in the end it''s the wink of an eye**lf**And when the morning light comes streaming in**lf**You''ll get up and do it again**lf**Amen**lf****lf**Caught between the longing for love**lf**And the struggle for the legal tender**lf**Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring**lf**And the junk man pounds his fender**lf**Where the veterans dream of the fight**lf**Fast asleep at the traffic light**lf**And the children solemnly wait**lf**For the ice cream vendor**lf**Out into the cool of the evening**lf**Strolls the Pretender**lf**He knows that all his hopes and dreams**lf**Begin and end there**lf****lf**Ah the laughter of the lovers**lf**As they run through the night**lf**Leaving nothing for the others**lf**But to choose off and fight**lf**And tear at the world with all their might**lf**While the ships bearing their dreams**lf**Sail out of sight**lf****lf**I''m going to find myself a girl**lf**Who can show me what laughter means**lf**And we''ll fill in the missing colors**lf**In each other''s paint-by-number dreams**lf**And then we''ll put our dark glasses on**lf**And we''ll make love until our strength is gone**lf**And when the morning light comes streaming in**lf**We''ll get up and do it again**lf**Get it up again**lf****lf**I''m going to be a happy idiot**lf**And struggle for the legal tender**lf**Where the ads take aim and lay their claim**lf**To the heart and the soul of the spender**lf**And believe in whatever may lie**lf**In those things that money can buy**lf**Though true love could have been a contender**lf**Are you there?**lf**Say a prayer for the Pretender**lf**Who started out so young and strong**lf**Only to surrender