The Great Pretender - The Platters

Oh yes, I'm the great pretender Pretending that I'm doing well My need is such, I pretend too much I'm lonely but no one can tell Oh yes, I'm the great pretender Adrift in a world of my own I play the game, but to my real shame You left me to dream all alone Too real is this feeling of make believe Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal Oh yes, I'm the great pretender Just laughing and gay like a clown I seem to be what I'm not, you see I'm wearing my heart like a crown Pretending that you're still around Too real is this feeling of make believe Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal Oh yes, I'm the great pretender Just laughing and gay like a clown I seem to be what I'm not, you see I'm wearing my heart like a crown Pretending that you're still around

Oh-oh yes, I'm the great pretender Pretending that I'm doing well My need is such I pretend too much I'm lonely but no one can tell Oh-oh yes, I'm the great pretender Adrift in a world of my own I've played the game but to my real shame You've left me to grieve all alone Too real is this feeling of make-believe Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal Oh-oh yes, I'm the great pretender Just laughin' and gay like a clown I seem to be what I'm not, you see I'm wearing my heart like a crown Pretending that you're still around Too real is this feeling of make-believe Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal Oh-oh yes, I'm the great pretender Just laughin' and gay like a clown I seem to be what I'm not, you see I'm wearing my heart like a crown Pretending that you're still around

Oh yes, I'm the great pretender Pretending I'm doing well My need is such I pretend too much I'm lonely but no one can tell Oh yes, I'm the great pretender Adrift in a world of my own I play the game But to my real shame You've left me to dream all alone Too real is this feeling of make believe Too real when I feel what my heart can conceal Oh yes, I'm the Great pretender Just laughing and gay like a clown I seem to be what I'm not, you see I'm wearing my heart like a crown Pretending that you're still around Too real is this feeling of make believe Too real when I feel what my heart can conceal Oh yes, I'm the great pretender Just laughing and gay like a clown I seem to be what I'm not, you see I'm wearing my heart like a crown Pretending that you're still around

[Malik b] Check it out, one two M-illi-tant I be the, alias malik b Internationale rationale All the people up 68th ave. And across broad street Or silk lane in south philly And on, et cetera Check it out, check it out Chorus: the roots Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate your cast members Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate your cast members Verse one: malik b Dig it, cool calm collect in my perspective Search the premises, I leave no clues for detectives My verbal impact across your back slap You talk about you see me, but your vision's full of cataract It don't matter that, your glass house I shatter that Bad luck I walk under now show me where the ladder at Pull up the urinal organs up in your bladder cat Approachin you with shriller rhetoric, as if you had a sac Now crews down for it, your gas pedal floor it With ammo and artillery and stash spots to keep and store it I used the banner of a slant with a zort Change your strategic plan, my man's getting bored Your vocal chord is fraudulent, and not the true porcelain I bring the fire, earth, and the source of wind The force of sin will endorse the pen We all search for sanity, but I think that it was lost again Now which stick of artists, can be the smartest My beam of sunlight shines the brightest in the forest Regardless, artists dislike because I'm? Control the temper, makin mc's whimper I tilt the earth from off the axis in the center Next I'm in the womb like a placenta M-illi-tant the city ninja, uplift Cause I'm the soul avenger, remember I'm no great pretender Chorus 2x Verse two: black thought Strategis, I bet y'all niggaz can't believe this I read you like a whole avenue that's filled with meters Parked, fuck your back talk, I watch how niggaz cat-walk Over my pit of venom and send em to the asphault For inquisitives, who wanna try to test me What protects me, will make you shake like epilipsy Plague your neighborhood with lyrical le-prosy Stimulate more than ecstasy y'all niggaz check my recipe Dig it, I must observe it, analyze when I'm chillin Peep out who's the villain then make your whole pavillion Of a sicilian, excuse the greed don't want a mill' I want a zillion - stacks of franklins to the ceiling I counts stacks imported, fuck the yacht and the mansion I want pluto and jupiter, political, universal expansion Buy out tommy and halle hanson Kidnap america,? you hold it for ransom Pass it down to my grandson, I got no time to be romancin Only time's for mental food and advancement This game of life is strictly chancein - get to know The nature before I get know the nigga while I'm glancing Enhancing, is my mental - I play in the midst A squad a team most crews is not in the halfs of rentals My utensils, display a whole variety Even when in the cut niggaz can't cut they anxiety Peep, I fill your brain with suspicion, pay attention Like you paid tuition, and stop all your bull-ishin The rap chemist in the lab to the finish The mic is my apprentice, cause I can't stand Courts or tennis, my pigmentation is the menace That's why the system's always tryin to pursue with a blemish Pale asses, think a nigga in this My flow's tremendous, for the meal you can't replenish The question you ask me, situation get worse Fam I won't befriend ya, cause I'm no great pretender Chorus 2x [Malik b] It's like that, one time for your mind Fifth dynasty, interwine and combine M-illi-tant The bad lieuten-ant One hundred x, bahamadia Minds and souls, like that Fifth dynast', my man?, p.r. star My man slick looka Check it out, one time like that Feel the fifth The one-fifth attack Your backbone and spine Check it out Brother q.u.e.s.t. South philly,?

Sleigh bells ring, are you list'nin? In the lane, snow is glist'nin' A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight Walking in a winter wonderland Gone away is the blue bird Here to stay is a new bird He sings a love song, as we go along Walking in a winter wonderland In the meadow we can built a snowman (yeah) Then pretend that he is Parson Brown He'll say "are you married?" We'll say "no man! But you can do the job when you're in town" Later on we'll conspire, as we dream by the fire To face unafraid, the plans that we've made Walking in a winter wonderland Gone away is the blue bird Here to stay is a new bird He sings a love song, as we go along Walking in a winter wonderland In the meadow we can built a snowman (yeah) Then pretend that he is Parson Brown He'll say "are you married?" We'll say "no man! But you can do the job when you're in town" Later on we'll conspire, as we dream by the fire To face unafraid, the plans that we've made Walking in a winter wonderland

I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish for you I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish for you I wish you were always with a smile I wish you were happy all the while I wish you were never in despair And life could be ...a sweet affair I wish that my love could bring to you Happiness and joy to cling to you All the things that give lovers wings Are all the things ...I wish for I wish somehow you could always be Finding sunshine hiding misery I wish someday we would never part And love would start From heart to heart All these happy things I wish for you Are the wonderous things in dreams we knew Living... loving things that lovers do They do come true... by wishing ...Oh I wish somehow you could always be Finding sunshine hiding misery And I Wish someday we would never part And love would start From heart to heart All these happy things I wish for you Are the wonderous things in dreams we knew Living... loving things that lovers do They do come true... by wishing ...

Alone in the night Each day seems to be bright The moon drifting away Seems to say, "Here comes the day" Oh, but I don't want to go (I don't wanna go) I don't wanna go (I don't wanna go) I don't wanna go on without you Through joy and through tears I could live the rest of my years Oh, but I don't want to go (I don't wanna go) I don't wanna go (I don't wanna go) I don't wanna go on without you Oh, but I don't want to go (I don't wanna go) I don't wanna go (I don't wanna go) No, I don't wanna go on without you The dream of my life Is to live in Paradise Oh, but I don't want to go (I don't wanna go) I don't wanna go (I don't wanna go) I don't wanna go on without you On without you