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, ooh      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? Ooh      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, ooh   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