From the very start we're told
A lie we're taught to have and hold 'from this day forth'
It casts its spell and then we're sold
But years will be unkind
We learn we cannot push rewind or take things back
We're helpless and blind
All because

It's the grandest illusion
(A sympathetic liar)
The damnedest delusion
(Our heart's desire)
A poet's disease

Is Hollywood to blame?
Does every story end the same?
Is expectation just too high to play the game?
It may be we both changed
But tell it to my face if there's another reason
Don't go saying, it's just a phase, no

It's the grandest illusion
(A sympathetic liar)
The damnedest delusion
(Our heart's desire)

Unconditional, metaphysical
(It's the greatest liar)
Purely physical, simply chemical
(Caught in the wires)

It's the grandest illusion
(A sympathetic liar)
The damnedest delusion
(Our heart's desire)
Just an outlandish confusion
(Don't we ever tire?)
The heart's greatest pollution
(We keep aiming higher)
A poet's disease
A fatal disease