The Great Pretender · Vinyl Single 12" Europe

Vinyl Single 12" · Parlophone Records · 1C K 060-20 1646 6.

1987 · Europe.

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Single Lyrics:

The Great Pretender.

(Buck Ram)

Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)

Pretending I'm doing well (ooh ooh)

My need is such I pretend too much

I'm lonely but no one can tell.

Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)

Adrift in a world of my own (ooh ooh)

I play the game but to my real shame

You've left me to dream all alone.

Too real is this feeling of make believe

Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal.

Ooh Ooh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)

Just laughing and gay like a clown (ooh ooh)

I seem to be what I'm not (you see)

I'm wearing my heart like a crown

Pretending that you're still around.

Yeah ooh hoo

Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal

Oh yes I'm the great pretender

Just laughing and gay like a clown (ooh ooh)

I seem to be what I'm not you see

I'm wearing my heart like a crown

Pretending that you're

Pretending that you're still around.

Liner Notes:

1. THE GREAT PRETENDER · Extended Version (Buck Ram)

2a. THE GREAT PRETENDER · 7" Version (Buck Ram)

2b. EXERCISES IN FREE LOVE · 7" Version (Mercury/Moran)

Produced by Freddie Mercury/Mike Moran/David Richards

Recorded at Ripe Studios and The Town House Studios

℗ 1987 Original Sound Recording Made by Mercury Songs Ltd.

© 1987 Mercury Songs Ltd. Design by Richard Gray. Photographs by Peter Hince

Marketed, Manufactured and Distributed by EMI. Printed in Holland by EMI Services Benelux B.V., Uden

En France: Distribution Exclusive EMI Pathé Marconi S.A.