I should have known in the beginning It had to reach a bitter end To play the knight in shining armour When I was just a simple man But I became the one you wanted And for a while it all made perfect sense So I believed telling you lies was Just an act of self defense So it goes Don't we all know the story Of princes and frogs And dreams colliding with real life Well, it shouldn't have come as a surprise You could have been well prepared for this You could have seen it in my eyes If you had looked there once I never liked telling you lies I've always hoped at last you'd see The man behind the disguise The real me