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(Refrão) 

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I'm so sorry when I told you 
Those smokestacks were making clouds for the sky 
But if I told you the truth 
It would just bring so many tears 
So many tears to your eyes 

I said it that's the way it is 
And the way it's gonna be 
If that's the way it is 
I'd rather make believe 

Oh remember sitting on that beach 
Watching all tha lightning fill up the sky 
Well you got so scared 
Until I told you it was just fireworks like the fourth 
of July 

I said it that's the way it is 
And the way it's gonna be 
If that's the way it is 
I'd rather make believe 

I Know one day you'll be old enough 
To know my stories I told are not true 
But when you have your own children 
And they ask you questions 
You'll know, you'll know just what to do 

You'll say it that's the way it is 
And the way it's gonna be 
If that's the way it is 
I'd rather make believe 
Oh that's the way it is 
And the way it's gonna be 
If that's the way it is 
I'd rather make believe 
For the 204 guys and mine campos pires