Real Life

I wish that life was like it is in the movies 'Cause the hero always gets his way No matter how hard it gets on that dark lonely road At the end he's got a smile on his face But when they threw me out to the lions No one saved me as I fell from your grace And no one wrote me new lines for what I said wrong And what I did wrong I could not erase And this is real life, this is real love This is real pain, that much I'm sure of These are real tears These are real fears, inside that I can't hide I wish that I could be your white knight in armor With an army just to bring you back home But I'll admit I'm scared of dialing your number But someone else is gonna answer the phone Why can't it be like it is on TV? When the orchestra plays and you come back to me This is real life, this is real love This is real pain, that much I'm sure of These are real tears These are real fears, inside, I can't hide This real life, this real love These are real wounds I'm bleeding from And I realize this is real I always thought that our love was a storybook tale God knows that I'd never dreamed in the end it would fail This is real life, this is real love This is real pain, that much I'm sure of These are real tears These are real fears, inside, I can't hide This real life, this is real love These are real wounds I'm bleeding from And I realize this is real