It Ain’t the Real Thing

[Verse 1]
This old love of ours
Don’t mean a thing
It’s just a tired old
Song we song
All our friends think that we’re happy
But you and I we know better
It’s only for the sake of our children
That we stay together

[Chorus]
But it ain’t the real thing
It ain’t the way it used to be
We had the real thing
We had a love so fine
But time has changed us
Into strangers that we hardly know
Can’t you tell me baby
Where do we go from here?

[Verse 2]
We keep pretending like
It ain’t over and done
Putting off town tomorrow
The hurt that must come
We don’t look each other in the eye no more
Cos we can’t face the truth
Living alone in 2 different homes
Underneath the same roof

[Chorus 2]
But it ain’t the real thing
It’s just a hopeless masquerade
We lost the real thing
Now we’re laying in the bed we made
Time has changed us
Into strangers that we hardly know
Won’t you tell me baby
Where do we go from here?

[Outro]
It ain’t the real thing
It ain’t the way it used to be
We had the real thing
We had a…