Standard (EADGBE)

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Verse

 Once in a while

 I act like a child

 To feel like a kid again

 It gets like a prison in

 The body I'm living in

 Cause everyones watching

 Quick to start talking

 I'm losing my innocence

 Wish I were a little girl

 Without the weight of the world

Chorus

 It would be nice

 To start over again

 Before we were men

 I'd give, I'd bend

 Lets play pretend

Interlude

Verse

 Remember the time

 We had soda for wine

 And got by on gratitude

 The worst they could do to you

Was check your attitude

 Yeah, when fights were for fun

 We had water in guns

 And a place we could call our own

How we lost hold of home

I guess I'll never know

Chorus

 It would be nice

 To start over again

 Before we were men

 I'd give, I'd bend

 Lets play pretend

 And when its the end

 Our lives will make sense

 We'll love, we'll bend

 Lets play pretend

Interlude

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Bridge

 Its not gonna be long

 Before we're all gone

 With nothing to show for them

Stop taking lives, come on

Let's all grow up again

Chorus

 It would be nice

 To start over again

 Before we were men

 I'd give, I'd bend

 Lets play pretend

 And when its the end

 Our lives will make sense

 We'll love, we'll bend

 Lets play pretend