Days, times we will remember 
When innocence was lost 
We let our hearts move on 
So many dreams we thought would last forever 
Today it doesn't matter 
All those dreams are gone, they are gone, oooh 
Tell me how it feels again 
Oh, show me that it's real and then 

I'll walk away, from my own reflection 
The stranger that I knew 
The stranger that was you 
And now I face a cold return to sender 
A truce but no surrender 
A voice that won't ring true, where are you? oooh 

I reach over the edge 
And throw a penny in the wishing well 
It's so deep that I can tell 

That in the real world 
There's fewer stars in the sky 
And in the real world 
You can get hear children cry at night 
This is the real world 

There is no time, for a life of solitude 
Only hunger and survival 
In the world we were born into, we're alone, oooh 

And it brings me to my knees 
Our father lay me down to sleep 
Father please 
Pray the lord my soul to keep 

Keep us in the real world 
Keep us in the real world 
Don't have to tell you 
In the real world 
They'll damn you if you try 
In the real world 
Let it begin with you and I 

This is the real world 
There's fewer stars in the sky 
This is the real world 
You can get hear children cry at night 
Now in the real world 
They'll damn you if you try 
And in the real world 
Let it begin with you and I 
Living in the real world 
Yeah, living in the real world