Why should I play this game of pretend?
Remembering through a secondhand sorrow?
Such a great son and wonderful friend
Oh, don't the tears just pour
I could curl up and hide in my room
There in my bed, still sobbing tomorrow
I could give in to all of the gloom
But tell me, tell me what for
Why should I have a heavy heart?
Why should I start to break in pieces?
Why should I go and fall apart for you?
Why should I play the grieving girl and lie
Saying that I miss you
And that my world has gone dark without your light?
I will sing no requiem tonight
You were the flood that swallowed us whole.
Refusing the love we endlessly gave you.
You were fire out of control.
The blaze that couldn’t be tamed.
Why should I have a heavy heart?
Why should I start to break in pieces?
Why should I go and fall apart for you?
Why should I play the grieving girl and lie
Saying that I miss you
And that my world has gone dark without your light?
I will sing no requiem tonight
Cause when the villains fall
The kingdoms never weep
No one lights a candle to remember
No, no one mourns at all
When they lay them down to sleep
So don’t tell me that I didn’t have it right
Don’t tell me that it wasn’t black and white
After all you put me through
Don’t say it wasn’t true
That you are not the monster...
That I knew...
Cause I...
Cannot play the grieving girl and lie.
Saying that I miss you,
And that my world has gone dark.
I will sing no requiem
I will sing no requiem
Tonight...
Oh...
Oh...
