Album Name

No Doubt

Artist

Braxton Cook

Genre

재즈

Release Date

2019.09.10

Release Agency

POVU Collective

Pretend - Braxton Cook
I've been from town to town
So many I've lost count
Made so many friends about
But so few are still around
I'm just a loner
Don't need that many friends
I'm not like your others
Ain't got much in compare
I don't know where I fit in
But I just make do
Cause it's easier to pretend
When you're feeling down and out
And you don't really feel it
Pretend
When you don't like the people
who surround you
You gotta pretend
You're not feeling like yourself
Then you gotta pretend
You gotta pretend
Up and down the east coast
never found home
Starting over every year
and it starts to get old
Skipped my homecoming
skipped my prom and all the dances
Never paid attention to them
girls that made advances
Focused on this music
thank God it finally got me
All I ever needed
was my horn and my family
I'm just a loner
Don't need that many friends
I'm not like your others
Ain't got much in compare
I don't know where I fit in
But I just make do
Cause it's easier to pretend
You gotta pretend pretend pretend
You gotta pretend pretend pretend
Yeah
Yeah
Shapeshifter
Cold-switching
Just to carry conversation
on cold shoulders
Causes my cordial
climate to attempt at room
temp small talk over two brews
But
I'm tipsy from disinterest
Listening just enough to
uh-huh and head nod
Knowing I'm too pissed to drive
this stick shift dialogue any longer
Truthfully
Truthfully I'm a loner
Seriously
Stricken with only
child syndrome
Smiling for pictures with people
who don't purchase product
But
I'd be the butthole
if I fast-forward past pseudo-fans
who plan to tag me
on Instagram like
Like we sharing a story
So I pause for the cause
far too often
Flaunting several silhouettes
of self for fresh perspective
Elected
A semi-social anti-approachable
people person posing
on the runway
of relationships
Sunken
In my postal dysfunction
Finding emo Nemos
in a sea of sorrows
seeking to borrow empathy
But I'm empty more often than not
Pretending
Pretending like I know your voice
Like I know your voice
whenever you call
Whenever
Whenever you call