F#C#
I wish that life was like it is in the movies,
D#mB
ʼcause the hero always gets his way.
F#C#
No matter how hard it gets on that dark, lonely road,
D#mB
at the end heʼs got a smile on his face.
F#C#
But when they threw me out to the lions,
EB
no one saved me as I fell from your grace.
F#C#
And no one wrote me new lines for what I said wrong,
EB
and what I did wrong I could not erase.
F#C#
This is real life, this is real love,
D#mB
this is real pain, that much Iʼm sure of.
F#C#BC#
These are real tears, these are real fears inside that I canʼt hide
BF#C#
I wish that I could be a white knight in armor,
D#mB
with an army just to bring you back home.
F#C#
But Iʼll admit Iʼm scared of dialing your number,
D#mB
and someone else is gonna answer the phone.
F#C#
Why canʼt it be like it is on TV,
EB
when the orchestra plays and you come back to me.
F#C#
This is real life, this is real love,
D#mB
these are real wounds that Iʼm bleeding from,
G#mC#
and I realize this is real.
EG#mBF#
I always thought that our love was a story book tale.
EBG#mBC#
God knows that Iʼd never dream in the end it would fail. ʼCause