Pretending to Pretend

Why are you pretending to pretend
Is this really your intent?

A beautiful empty shell
A desperate escape from your hell

A cry up to the sky
A thirst for rain in a dry and dusty land

Is this what life is meant to be
It's all for show, it's all about me

The more I have for me, the less I have of me
Pieces crumbling leaving a pitiful image within

Who will ever know beneath my glow
I'm just pretending to pretend

Just as you are pretending to pretend
That life's all fine and sweet
Isn't that how we all greet

U2 sums it all
I still haven't found what I'm looking for

Is there a message in the bottle
That's I've found lying by the shore
It's seems it's written, just for me
That in Jesus Christ I'll be free

It's time to tear down my walls
It's fine if you don't like what you see

I'm coming to terms that Jesus loves me
I'm walking through His halls
Fulfilled increasingly

It's time for you and me to stop
Racing down the dead end roads

It's time to be free
Stop pretending, that's me!