Goodbye Alice In Wonderland

It's four in the afternoon, I'm on a flight

Leaving L.A.

Tryin' to figure out my life

My youth scattered along the highway

Hotel rooms and headlines

I've made a living with a song

Guitar as my companion

Wanting desperately to belong

Fame is filled with spoiled children

They grow fat on fantasy

I guess that's why I'm leavin'

I crave reality

So goodbye, Alice in Wonderland

Goodbye, yellow brick road

There is a difference between dreaming and pretending

I did not find paradise

It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting

What's been missing in my life

I'm embarrassed to say the rest is rock and roll cliché

I hit the bottom when I reached the top

But I never knew it was you who was breaking my heart

I thought you had to love me

But you did not

Yes, a heart can hallucinate

If it's completely starved for love

It can even turn monsters into angels

From above

You forged my love just like a weapon

And you turned it against me like a knife

You broke my last heartstring

You opened up my eyes

So goodbye, Alice in Wonderland

Goodbye, yellow brick road

There is a difference between dreaming and pretending

That was not love in your eyes

It was only a reflection of my lonely mind searching

For what's been missing in my life

Growin' up is not an absence of dreaming

It's being able to understand the difference between

The ones you can hold, the ones that you've been sold

And dreaming is a good thing cause it brings new things to life

But pretending is an ending that perpetuates a lie

Forgetting what you are seeing for what you've been told

Truth is stranger than fiction

And this is my chance to get it back

And life is much better without all of those pretty lies, oh

So goodbye, Alice in Wonderland

And you can keep your yellow brick road

There is a difference between dreamin' and pretendin'

These are not tears in my eyes

They are only a reflection of my lonely mind finding

They are only a reflection of my lonely mind finding

I found what's missing in my life