Pretend It Isn't There - Charles Esten, Steve Mandile

Well, it’s almost been forever

And we been playing it this way

Feeling things we must never

Ever feel, or ever say

It’s so powerful what hovers

Here between us in the air

When you are taken by another

So you pretend it isn’t there

And I feel the toll that it’s taking

Waiting for what you can’t give

Deep inside me something’s breaking

What a lonely way to live

And it’s been there since I found you

All this beauty and despair

But just so I can stay around you

I pretend it isn’t there

And you’re not wanting me

And you’re not haunting me

And it’s not still in me

This thing that’s killing me

And my heart will be fine

And you will be…

Love continues to reward us

With all the pain that we can bear

And though the end is rushing toward us

We pretend it isn’t there