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