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 can 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

Why should I have a heavy heart?

Why should I say I'll keep you with me?

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

'Cuz 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've put me through,

don't say it wasn't true

That you were not the

monster that I knew,

'Cuz 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

tonight