It's four in the afternoonI'm on a flight leaving L.A.Trying to think about my lifeMy youth scattered along the highwayHotel rooms and headlinesI've made a living with a songJust a guitar as my companionWanting desperately to belongFame is filled with spoiled childrenThey grow fat on fantasyI guess that's why I'm leavingI crave realityChorus 1:So goodbye Alice in WonderlandGoodbye yellow brick roadThere is a difference between dreaming and pretendingI did not find paradiseIt was only a reflection of my lonely mind searchingFor what was missing in my lifeVerse 2:I'm embarassed to say the rest is a rock and roll clicheI hit the bottom when I reached the topI never knew it was you who was breaking my heartI thought you had to love meYou did notYes a heart can hallucinateIf it's completely starved for loveCan even make monsters seem likeAngels from aboveYou forged my love like a weaponAnd turned it against me like a knifeYou broke my last heartstringBut you opened up my eyesChorus 2:So goodbye Alice in WonderlandGoodbye yellow brick roadThere is a difference between dreaming and pretendingThat was not love in your eyesIt was only a reflection of my lonely mind wantingwhat was missing in my lifeBridge:Dreaming is a good thing cause it brings new things to lifePretending is an ending that perpetuates a lieForgetting what you areSeeing for what you've been toldAnd growing up is not the absence of dreamingIt's being able to understand the difference between the ones you can holdAnd the ones that you've been soldVerse 3:Well, truth is stranger than fictionAnd this is my chance to get it rightLife is much better without all of your pretty liesChorus 3:So Goodbye Alice in WonderlandYou can keep your yellow brick roadCause there is a difference between dreaming and pretendingThat was not love in your eyesIt was only a reflection of my lonely mind wantingIt was only a reflection of my lonely mind wishingThat you were what was missing from my life