Goodbye Alice In Wonderland - Jewel

Verse 1:

It’s four in the afternoon

I’m on a flight leaving L.A.

Trying to think about my life

My youth scattered along the highway

Hotel rooms and headlines

I’ve made a living with a song

Just a 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 leaving

I crave reality

Chorus 1:

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 searching

For what was missing in my life

Verse 2:

I’m embarassed to say the rest is a rock and roll cliche

I hit the bottom when I reached the top

I never knew it was you who was breaking my heart

I thought you had to love me You did not

Yes a heart can hallucinate

If it’s completely starved for love

Can even make monsters seem like

Angels from above

You forged my love like a weapon

And turned it against me like a knife

You broke my last heartstring

But you opened up my eyes

Chorus 2:

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 wanting

what was missing in my life

Bridge:

Dreaming is a good thing cause it brings new things to life

Pretending is an ending that perpetuates a lie

Forgetting what you are

Seeing for what you’ve been told

And growing up is not the absence of dreaming

It’s being able to understand the difference between the ones you can hold

And the ones that you’ve been sold

Verse 3:

Well, truth is stranger than fiction

And this is my chance to get it right

Life is much better without all of your pretty lies

Chorus 3:

So Goodbye Alice in Wonderland

You can keep your yellow brick road

Cause there is a difference between dreaming and pretending

That was not love in your eyes

It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wanting

It was only a reflection of my lonely mind wishing

That you were what was missing from my life