Best to Pretend

The phone rings and you’re asking can you crash
I say, “Of course”
After all we’ve been through and gotten into
You know my home is yours
We stay up, you pour a cup
Of something soothing
Now our soft words are no longer heard
But our mouths are still moving

As you kiss me again
I’ll do my best to pretend
That you’re not really with him

The day breaks and my chest aches
So I’ll call up a friend
So much to say but your secret’s safe
I’ll never tell them
’Cause every blissful night that is full
Of everything I miss
Is followed by a morning we deny
That it ever did exist

If you kiss me again
I’ll do my best to pretend
That you’re not really with him

This takes me back all those years
To when you found new boys at school and all I found were tears
All of a sudden, your familiar laugh hurt my ears
I took for granted everything that was handed to me
Still right now I’m shaking like the start of a train wreck
I shut my eyes and I can feel you kissing on my neck 
But when I open them, it’s nothing but a lonely room
Full of things and memories of days when I held you

So when you kiss me again
I’ll do my best to pretend
That you’re not really with him
No, you’re not really with him

And we can drink to the time
When I could once call you mine
But all good things come to an end
So I’ll do my best to pretend

I’ll do my best
I’ll do my best
I’ll try my best

This song was originally called “Stray the Rail” with slightly different lyrics from my former band, Dear Indugu.

Note: The guitar was tuned down a half step in the original Dear Indugu version “Stray the Rail”

Intro / Verse:
(Ska chords)
E B/D# | C#m B | A | B

B/D#: x x x 8 9 7

Chorus:
(Ska chords)
A | B | E | B
A | E/B | A | B

E/B: D shape on 4th fret, avoiding all open strings

Transition:
(Bar chords)
A | B | E B/D# | C#m
A | B

B/D#: x 6 9 8 7 x

Bridge:
C#m | C#m | A | A (Bar chords)
B | B | E | B/D# (Bar chords)
C#m | C#m | A | A (Standard A chord)
E | E | B | B (Standard E chord)

Final chorus:
(Bar chords)
A | B | E | B
A | E/G# | A | B
E | B/D# | C#m | B
A | E/G# | A | B

E/G#: 4 7 6 4 5 4

Outro:
(Ska chords)
Verse chords 3x
A, B, C#m