I pretend to be Australian

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© Andel
I pretend to be Australian

(Verse 1)
I’m sitting on this dusty porch, watching planes fly overhead
Thinking ‘bout the life I lived and the words I never said.
Back in the land of order, where every path is paved and dry,
Where rules are written in the clouds and mirror back the sky.
I’m tired of being a symbol, a piece of a broken past,
I’ve left the heavy baggage in a world that’s moving fast.

(Chorus)
I pretend to be Australian, just to feel a little light,
To be a man from nowhere in the middle of the night.
I pretend to be Australian, because I’m done with who I was,
I’m breaking every cycle just because, just because.
No history on my shoulders, no lessons left to teach,
Just a nameless face in sunlight on a never-ending beach.

(Verse 2)
In Berlin they want an answer, in Munich they want a plan,
But here the wind just blows the dust across a different land.
I’m sick of the "Efficiency", the lectures, and the pride,
I don't want to be the "German" in your narrow point of view,
I’m shedding every layer to become someone new.

(Chorus)
I pretend to be Australian, just to feel a little light,
To be a man from nowhere in the middle of the night.
I pretend to be Australian, because I’m done with who I was,
I’m breaking every cycle just because, just because.

(Outro)
I’m just a tourist in my skin...
Where the German ends...
And the quiet begins.
Just a nameless face
in the sunlight on a never-ending beach
I pretend to be Australian...
Yeah, I’m just from somewhere else.