Tim Gerard - Pretenders

I was sharing my apartment with a guy from MIT

Paul Revere outside my window in Little Italy

He said man whatcha’ doing you’re gonna waste your
life away

One person in a million’s gonna catch the golden break

I was torn-between the North End & Back Bay

She couldn’t see herself in the songs that I was playing

Learned some rhythm and some riffs I couldn’t put
down any roots

I was a redcoat lost Boston town, I had to face the truth


I was singing to myself like I was someone else

A stranger among strangers in the street

When I couldn’t find a place to call my own

I knew I’d have to bring it all back home


Had a drink with Mr. Nichols at the Phoenix off Kings
Road

The deal he offered was about as far as I could go

Went from London out to Nashville all the way to California

Trains and planes and changing lanes but no one ever warns you

You can fly and you can ride, you can run and you can hide

But what you think you gotta keep is what you gotta leave behind


I was singing to myself like I was someone else

A stranger among strangers in the street

Another ticket in my hand, another foreign land

To get away from the pretenders in my dreams

When I couldn’t find a place to call my own

I knew I’d have to bring it all back home

bring it all back home


I stumbled down to Camden town to get my spirits back again

I couldn’t find a single soul was like the plague had taken them

Found some bottles of cachaça and drank them till I dropped

The devil checked in on Thursdays, I woke up when he knocked

He picked me off the floor and said as though he had rehearsed

To build a strong foundation you gotta hit rock bottom first


I was singing to myself like I was someone else

A stranger among strangers in the street

Another ticket in my hand, another foreign land

To get away from the pretenders in my dreams

If you can’t find a place to call your own

one day you gotta bring it all back home

bring it all back home

bring it all back home

Written by:
Gordon Torr, Timothy Gerard de Graauw

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Lyrics © Sentric Music

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