Three Pretenders

Three Pretenders Forced Their Entry
There Wasn't Time to Defend Or Attack
Somewhere Inside I Held Their Fury
But One By One My Defenses Began to Crack

the First Became a Voice From My Childhood
Without a World to Call His Own
Asking Questions But Doubting the Answers
and Too Confused to Stand Up and Face It Alone

I Can Feel My Body Tremble
Like An Animal Under the Gun
Can You Feel Your Body Tremble
Look in and See the Eyes of Three Pretenders

the Second Came a Shadowy Hustler
Selling Anything Not Nailed to the Ground
He Put a Price On My Resistance
and If It's High, I Know He'll Be Marking It Down

the Third Became a Mysterious Traveller
Stormy Words Like Sea-weathered Sails
His Life Was Scarred With Peaks and Valleys
a Haunted Kingdom Crumbling Against the Gales

I Can Feel My Body Tremble
Like a Child Afraid of the Dark
Can You Feel Your Body Tremble
Look in and See the Eyes of Three Pretenders