I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw, I'm in the prime of my life.
Let's make some music, make some money, find some models for wives.
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin, and fuck with the stars.
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.
This is our decision, to live fast and die young.
We've got the vision, now let's have some fun.
Yeah, it's overwhelming, but what else can we do.
Get jobs in offices, and wake up for the morning commute.
Forget about our mothers and our friends
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/mgmt/time_to_pretend.html ]
I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world
I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone.
There's really nothing, nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew.
The models will have children, we'll get a divorce
We'll find some more models, everything must run it's course.
We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end
We were fated to pretend
To pretend
We're fated to pretend
To pretend
For me its more like: we (our generation, i guess) dream about living fast 'n dyin young, sex drugs & rock'n'roll, about being seen as happy and succesfull, having money, marrying models coz they'r beautiful and not for love - we dream of it coz it looks so glamorous and careless. Everyone wants to be famous, rich, 'party like a rockstar'. But once you manage to do that u can only pretend it's great, becouse this doesn't make you happy. They do drugs and drink too much because they actually depressed, and even if they're never alone, they're terribly lonely. This song is quite pessimistic, but also makes u think: maybe having the office job, one true love and a happy family is not actually a failure, as one could imagine after watching mtv and reading about his idol's lifestyle. Plus, it's real - and not pretending.
This song is an emotional and narrative representation of the modern, prosperous, famous lifestyle. As musicians, mgmt either experience or watched an experience or are at least aware of the way today's famed rock stars live. Time to pretend both glorifies and demeans this lifestyle. While the introverse connotates excitement and freedom and fantastic living, the song closes with a nostalgic, retrospective look at childhood. I love the way this song demonstrates confusion between which path in life to take. On one hand, there's the pretentious, desirable journey resulting in ultimate lonliness and early death, and on the other is the mundane, spirit-sucking routine of the commuting, 9-5 worker. This song personifies decision-making, and short-lived joy in young adulthood. Tragically, though, it also gives a sad look into future deaths of rockstars, even using examples of choking on vomit from past musicians such jimi hendrix, bon scott, and kieth moon. It is genius, anthemic, and inspiring in the way that it makes you want to life your life as fun and as best as possible. All this can be said before even going into the musicianship, which is incredible and mind-blowing. The way this music makes you feel is indescribable. It puts you on cloud nine and makes you feel like a god before you even realize what they're singing about. Forgive me for rambling... I'm simply a big fan of this song who likes to give credit where credit is due is good music. It's rare these days that i find songwriting of this quality. Anyway, absolutely love this song, and from this, i have become and overnight fan of mgmt.
Time To Pretend lyrics
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by Unregistered on Feb 4th 2012 1:14 am
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Fuck the real world and play music. Becoming famous
by Unregistered on Feb 3rd 2012 4:21 pm
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Time to stop giving a fuck and time to make your imagination into real life, live it up!!
by Unregistered on Feb 2nd 2012 3:54 pm
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We'll miss our childhood so lets pretend like we're not adults. Eventually we'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end of us. Yeah yeah yeah, that sounds good.
by Unregistered on Feb 2nd 2012 3:34 pm
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Living life to the fullest and becoming who we are then dying
by Unregistered on Jan 31st 2012 4:25 pm
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It is sarcastic but true with the songs views on our generation, it also reflects on how many people do just pretend to be a personality that deep down they are not really.
by Unregistered on Jan 30th 2012 10:51 am
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Its about knowing that the life youre choosing is going to have a bad end but the other options dont end too well either- so you choose the one that feeds your passion and you leave behind things that make you comfortable . Its chasing a dream
by Unregistered on Jan 28th 2012 12:25 pm
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It means that the gmas will lose to the pats by 14 pts and all ny gman fans will jump into the hudson. Go pats.
by Unregistered on Jan 24th 2012 8:50 pm
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Basically, this song was written for you to have a great trip on whatever your on. So stop wasting your time on thinking about what its about and enjoy your high. "we've got the vision, now let's have some fun" :) keep it classy.
by Unregistered on Jan 21st 2012 8:15 am
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The two best comments nail it, i'll just add that this has nothing to do with this generation, it is for all generations of young adults who must choose between paths of adventure vs. The "boring" norm of the time (adapted to the details of the time of course) ; also, this feeling doesn't go away as one gets older and examplifies itself again in mid life crisis, retired people getting divorces and new partners, etc.
by Unregistered on Jan 19th 2012 4:07 pm
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The song is about the dream of living the life of a rock star with money, drugs and beautiful women. The person writing it explains you have to give up the most important things like your family and friends when you live like this. If you can accept this then live hard and die young.