Alex G - Pretend 

I've been out of the game for a long time, and I've come back to discover that I've been dethroned as the unreleased Alex G champion. Thank you for your service, block perce

I feel this shit in my pancreas

Listening to this song in prison with the volume low so I don't get caught

the album art looks so familiar and nostalgic. It looks and feels like friends i never had back from a time i never lived. love it

sometimes when i want to listen to this song i look at all the comments and see everyone’s experience they’ve had with it. to those people who are carrying through a really tough tone with this song, ur not alone

I love the little drum break at 0:17! It sounds like a anxious heart beat and an alarm clock going off at the same time! "Don't you know you're out of time."

Alex G is the only person where all of his songs are good . Literally every single song is good

ive never listened to and connected with an artist like i have with alex g. he’s amazing.

Lyrics: Gonna crack a rib When I get home I'm gonna bury you In my favorite hole I made a bloody mess In the kitchen sink I tried to fix myself But I didn't think They said "We just want to Talk with you" "We just want to Walk you through" Oh, I don't want to see you, babe I wanna be trapped in you Oh, I don't want to be me But I'm gonna pretend for you, oh Let's paint our nails And keep it real 'Cause honey all I know Is what I feel I'm still looking for A friend of a friend He said he'd hook me up He told me what he had They said "Leave your body Leave your mind" "Don't you know You're out of time?" In his room In his bed You can't hear what he said Looks like dirt Tastes like trash Honey, I know you Could float right past Oh, I don't want to see you, babe I wanna be trapped in you Oh, I don't want to be me But I'm gonna pretend for you

I love his songs and the feeling they give me, they make me feel safe

This song is so beautiful, it makes me want to cry. I remember hearing it in a Berserk edit years ago and it stuck with me ever since. Listening it to now , I feel so content with my life. Have a loving partner, loving friends, my family who always smiles when I’m up and my cat who always gets excited every time I’m awake. Years ago, I felt like this song. Pretending to be happy but I wasn’t. This song really helped me realize how much I healed. And still am. Thanks Alex G.

this song has carried me through every emotional experience ive faced

I'm pretty sure this is one of the best songs in the world.

This makes me wanna hang out with my friends

I was introduced to this song by someone who said it was "the realest song they had ever heard" Two years later and I still 100% agree So real.

I'm listening to this while my cat is in pain. I don't know what's wrong with him, but I hope he survived. He's not acting normal. Everytime I open the back door for him to go outside, he usually runs to it and starts meowing. But this time he didn't run to the back door. He just sat in the pile of clothes. He can't move his back legs, he looks sad and in pain. He never acts like that and I love him so much. He's my favorite cat ever. I'll update tomorrow morning to see if he's getting any better and when I'm going to the vet. Edit: sorry I'm kind of late, but anyway when I woke up yesterday morning my dad already took him to the vet so here's what happened at the vet. So yesterday I thought he had rabies because he was acting really weird and kind of aggressive, but Simon was just in pain. Well between the ages of 3-5, male cats can get a tumor down by their private part and Simon had that tumor so he wasn't able to pee and that's why he was paralyzed from his back legs because he was in so much pain. It would be terrible if I let him stay alive, he would be in so much pain and the tumor would kill him anyway. So the vet had to put him down. RIP Simon, you were such a good cat. Love you, see you some day.

I’m a 58 year old former pirate with no left thumb, who once met Ronald Reagan, and I wish I had never heard of Hall and Oates, but when I hear this beautiful song I am finally happy.

this is my favorite song ever,,, just wanted to put that out into the universe :)

thank god all the solos are panned hard left or right it makes it so much easier learning them

I think there’s a guy listening to this song in the cell across from me with low volume so he doesn’t get caught and the guy in the cell next to him is humming along

It's been a long time since any song has given me that feeling of nostalgia, of sadness for the moments that will not return and the rapid passage of time, but thanks to this song I felt like that again, I don't know whether to thank Alex or not because these songs They make you feel sad, but at the same time there is something beautiful about them, something romantic. thanks Alex

Best song to cry to tbh.

Top 3 favorite songs. Wish I had an ounce of this man's talent.

This is the most beautiful song ever

this hits different in 2020. i miss my friends

My best friend killed himself last month and I’m still recovering. Been listening to Alex G for years but I just found this song 3 days ago, and every single time I hear it I literally have a mental breakdown, because it reminds me of his energy, the lyrics remind me of his death, and his music taste is like this. Thank you Alex G. I sometimes feel like you’re all I have left of him. I owe you so much.

listening to this made me cry but in such a good way, realizing how much ive been through, i didnt deserve any bad thing that happened to me, i just want to give my old 15 yr old self a hug Thats all i needed, i want to hug myself rn, im going through a hard breakup, my life feels like shit. im done w school And im so lost, sometimes a good cry is what i need. thinking about my life and realizing i really want to change, from all those hard years of depression, self harm, drugs, i deserve better. i want to become better and happier, its so hard when people leave. what did i do? i try my best. i hope i feel better soon. i love this song thank you

Favorite song.

bumping this from da psych ward

If this is the last thing i hear before i go, then i'm glad i end my journey this way, thank you for uploading this beautiful song.

This song just brings back memories flooding through my brain for some reason

i feel so lost empty and sad but this song among many others makes every minute of my life easier to cope with

Thanks to people like this, I can be in heaven just for one moment

Corey Glick's Souvenir

reminds me of high school and driving my friends car at night without knowing how to drive and listening to my ipod classic and staring at myself in the mirror and feeling so excited to grow up

Perfect to drive to, right when fall hits. That certain time of night

Ive always wanted to go to sleepovers as a teen. I wasnt allowed then and even now. Im turning 21 soon Ill be 30, 40, dead. Until I leave home all I can do is daydream to this song about being 15 once more and sleeping over. My inner child hurts so bad.

I feel like I've listened to this song for most of my teenage years without even knowing it

I need a hug

Listening to this song always manages to make me cry when i dont want to i still manage to cry to his songs most times

me and my girls song. met this girl, couple years older then me, funny, pretty and was the feminine version of me. i started riding my bike down to her work in the freezing cold nights, music blasting through my cheap wired headphones and that exciting feeling of being a teenager in love. i’d ride to her work just to walk her home and talk with her (she lived about 5 minutes away). we confessed our feelings for one another and eventually started seeing eachother romantically. had our first awkward kiss on some random bench by the beach as this song was playing through our headphones. i introduced her to my family shortly after and then asked her to be my girlfriend. we had to keep our relationship a secret as we knew we’d get shit for being together as the age gap wasn’t “normal”, she had to sneak to see me as her parents weren’t fans of us being together either. her parents caught us going out together a few times and grounded her for a while, they got over it eventually and i met them. all we’d do was lay in my bed together for hours and hours listening to this piece of art and holding eachother as tight as possible. things got complicated with her finishing school and her stresses. one night out of the blue she sends me a paragraph explaining the situation then cuts me off everything. spoken a couple times since then but i think we are done now. i come back to this masterpiece every now and then and i’m reminded of her and what we had, hope she still thinks of me fondly as i do of her. when she was grounded and we had no contact she’d tell me to look at the stars because she’d be doing the same, i wonder if she still does. i couldn’t be more thankful that i got to experience a love like we had for eachother. thank u alex g for being the soundtrack to our relationship.

this. feels warm. to me.

Insurance companies be like : 1:05

It’s cool to see how many people have recently become fans of Alex g. I first heard Alex g from gta in 2020 or 2019 and ive been a fan since. none of my friends knew about him and now everyone listens to him. He deserves all of his success

I feel ashamed in myself for finding this masterpiece of a song 4 years later

i recently had to put down my dog. this song reminded me from when i found her. i tried to shower her. i miss her so much.

i actually just broke my rib and i kept thinking of that lyric lol

IM GONNA CRACK A RIBBBBBBBBBBBBB

This song makes me think of the Summer camp I used to go every summer as a kid. It reminds me of fireflies and acoustic guitars around bonfires. everytime I listen to it, it unlocks another memory of those special moments i thought I lost

Its almost 5am and im just listening to Alex g songs, i should probably go to sleep

somewhat rant incoming: first heard this song in a spider verse edit on pinterest and have been obsessed ever since. it's the summer after my ninth grade year and i haven't gotten to talk to much or see at all my friends and it hasn't really hit me as hard as it is really now. this song sort of reminds me of earlier in the school year when my mental health wasn't the best, i wasn't eating or sleeping enough and was somewhat overwhelmed yet also was doing well with schoolwork and had imposter syndrome. yet i'm sort of nostalgic for it because at least i had people to talk to. this song makes me want to die but is also the only thing giving me life. that's how i've felt about school for a while too and now that it's been over it feels like my life doesn't have a purpose other than just going by. idek what i'm saying anymore it's late at night and i felt like recording a stream of consciousness for some time. thanks for reading of you got this far. m

why does this song feel like the love my parenents i never got

Walking home at night with this song playing wondering where I went wrong for him to do what he did to me.

for some reason the picture of all of them together makes me sad. just a bunch of ghosts who don’t exist anymore.

ive probably given u all the views i listen to this song everyday so thank me

this is the song i listen too when im not sad but not happy either yknow? im moving out and leaving all my friends behind and i feel like this song is the credits song to the end of this chapter of my life. it feels like an end. it makes me want to cry to sleep. im crying to sleep. this guy is a genius. alex g(enius) love him

idk if its just me but does anyone think about omori when listening to this also love this song

This song breaks me but I love it so much

this song sounds like the feeling i get when i realize my dad won't be able to hear about my life and see who i become

man I can't get over this song

her >>>

finally, this year i'm going to see alex g

this song is like when you are struggling with depression and sucidal thoughts but you pretend you r always happy,laugh,help others while you try your hardest not to commit. I struggled with depression my whole life and comitted twice and everyone told me "you never let it see, when you say you feel depressed it looks like you r joking"

looks like dirt tastes like trash honey i know you could float right past

they done took it down from spotify😞

I love RU-vid rewind, I don’t think I will ever find a song that I cried more to

this song is kind of a slapperoonie. it really did slap roonie.

cant do this anymore

i love alex g

This song reminds me of that feeling when your really happy or at peace but have this lingering feeling of nostalgia as if your already preparing yourself to miss the moment.

To anyone reading this, i hope you win against whatever you are fighting with.

every alex g enjoyer needs a hug

old man here. i love this kind of music .it really makes you think about the good times. i remember being young. lots of friends . but drinking addiction ripped them from me one by one . been downhill since flipping the bird to my dad at eighteen and going 23rd infantry, two tours in Nam only to lose best friend to a tree in low visibility. got framed for arson and thrown in prison for seventeen years in Huntsville . tried to hang myself ended up paralyzed whole right side. my lovely beautiful wife went out in a house fire some years ago. she couldnt bear kids so we had eachother . she fed me .. now i'm eating from a straw. wrecking my truck last month was the straw broke the camels back. aside from fourth stage Copd and prostate cancer, got three compound fractures and broken ribs . nothing to drink but tear drops and doctor says I got six months to live. all i got to pay for it is a wooden nickel. hospital is worse than prison. at least there i get to see my friends and walk outside once in a while . your probably reading this in a warm bed with fancy earphones on. your the lucky ones. wish i had the youtube when i was your age. remember what you got, kids. enjoy the music before its forever gone. old man out.

I think someone in the next cell from me in prison is listening to this song with really low volume so they don't get caught

"I made a bloody mess in the kitchen sink, I tried to fix myself but I didn't think" honestly the realist shit ive ever heard

Alex G is the cuddles from my mother that i never got but always longed for as a child

“i made a bloody mess on the kitchen sink i tried to fix myself but i didn’t think” that’s one of the darkest lyrics i’ve ever heard

Literally his best song and it was never published. He looked at this and said “nah not good enough”

The best songs have cover art that's just a picture of people who don't hang out anymore.

masterpiece honestly. if there ever is a documentary made about the genius that alex g is, this will be the credits song

i actually met Alex G over a zoom call for an interview in a music class i was in because our instructor was friends with him; got to ask him some questions, cool dude.

this is my favorite youtube comment section ever i found it in like 2018 and i’ve checked it every so often it’s so sweet like a little community i love you guys

I feel so out of touch with everyone. these past few months have been rough. this song resonates so well with how i feel. such a good song

im 14 years old, im disabled, and im not supposed live past 24. i havent told anyone. my friends think im gonna be with them until we’re all old, we will. they just wont be able to see me. i have 10 more years, maybe less. i hope i can listen to this song as i go tbh.

Got accepted to my dream school, moved to a different city and life’s really nice lately.

I remember I did acid one night completely out of the blue for the first time and took an Uber to the middle of nowhere and just walked around listening to this on repeat on a foggy night. I worry Ill never be that happy again ever.

this song feels like summer riding bikes until 12 with your friends and sneaking out with someone your not allowed to see

The picture reminds me of times when I was still hanging out with my friends all the time. I feel that I've lost touch and it's my fault I'm an outsider no matter where I go. Nice song.

this alex g comment section specifically is the most wholesome place on the internet .

If you listen to this a lot please be my friend lol

Recently was diagnosed with HIV at 19, this song just feels like bliss, helps to not blame myself and just feel the pain and move on

This is the go to song for when you’re sad and don’t feel like being happy

I hope you guys are winning the fight

i dont think i deserve this song

Acoustic chords are E / Bm / A for pretty much the whole song, for the little riff on the E put your pinkie on first string 2rd fret, then move the whole shape up two frets, then back to E :') Sounds pretty decent even if it ain't perfect

When I get depressed and can’t get out of bed, the only feeling I have is writhing guilt and sadness that I can’t explain. This song somehow brings me to tears. I can release and ease some of the sadness in a healthy manner by just listening to this song. I can’t explain how much I love this song, it fixes a tiny bit of a massive problem that is fundamentally wrong with me.

i'm in such a rough patch right now. i feel so lonely all the time. i feel like my friends don't understand me. i just feel disconnected in general. i've had this song on repeat for the last couple days and i really like it, just comforting in a way and makes me feel a little less lonely. my 15th birthday is coming up and i don't want to be alone for it but oddly music feels like my closest friend right now edit: now 16 and life is good. give it time

this probably doesn't make any sense, but this song makes me feel okay about being alone all the time

Theres nothing like late july, man

I’m 17 with cystic fibrosis. Life’s been hard last couple of years for me with physical health and mental health. This song gives me warmth that I’d forgotten even existed. This song is so beautiful to its core.