[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