We meet for drinks at day time For the first time And all my lines you've heard About a dozen times before If I could make You want me I could be myself at last It's a play And we're just reading lines from the first act But we don't have to play along We could get by on our own So could we just not play along And when your salad Hits the table I sense The regret that you will be Starving later When all I want is Is to connect to something real Then I'll go on about the weather If I could take You by the hand and pull you close to me Then I could shake This feeling like we're playing out a scene But we don't have to play along We could get by on our own So could we just not play along Because we both know where this goes Now we don't have to play No we don't have to play along We kiss beneath the moonlight And for the first time I can feel light enough To just be carried by the flow If I could make You want me maybe you could want to stay If only for a moment of a day Just long enough to shake these nerves away If I could It's a play And we don't have to play along Along Along No we don't have to play