is this the real life

Lyrics

i stay in my dreams, but i don't know what that means, are you real or am i?, you tell yourself to take it slow, but there's only one place to go, we all have a way to get high, i run towards the fantasy, oh the places i would rather be, they seem like heaven inside my head, for just a moment i had myself, unrestrained, and the drinking helps, the burn feels like an old friend returned from the dead, i stay in my dreams, but i don't know what that means, are you real or am i?, you tell yourself to take it slow, but there's only one place to go, we all have a way to get high, i wonder if i'll ever know, the person that i love the most, the person i spent my life to protect, reactions of loved ones so dear, convulsing from the words that they hear, don't ever let your guard down, leave nothing to neglect, i built this world to escape from yours, call it trash, i call it pearls, i've got mine, you keep yours, the creativity is more than vagary, i admit it can get the best of me, but at least there i'm free, the blood beneath your skin, the blush of embarrassment, from seeing how a person is made, run from the questions you have, they never answered once when you asked, but now you're the sickness and they are clean, so just pretend it's a dream, just pretend it's a dream, just pretend it's a dream