Only make believe I love you
Only make believe that you love me
Others find peace of mind in pretending
Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we

Make believe our lips are blending
In a phantom kiss or two or three?
Might as well make believe I love you
For to tell the truth, I do

The game of just supposing is the sweetest game I know
Our dreams are more romantic than the world we see
And if the things we dream about don't happen to be so
That's just an unimportant technicality

Though the cold and brutal fact is
You and I have never met
We need not mind conventions, P's and Q's
If we put our thoughts in practice
We can banish all regret
Imagining most anything we choose

We could make believe I love you
Only make believe that you love me
Others find peace of mind in pretending
Couldn't you? Couldn't I? Couldn't we

Make believe our lips are blending
In a phantom kiss or two or three?
Might as well make believe I love you
For to tell the truth, I do

Copyright: Universal Music Publishing Group
Writer(s): Jerome Kern, Oscar II Hammerstein