Songs with rhymes of pretense

I'm always left out stranded on the fence
You came along, no ego, no pretense

I hide in darkness blind to sense
Chasing a dream with false pretense

Don't trust that false pretense
Counterfeit lies are your best defense

If I shoot first, I ain't got to sweat the defense
You should know the story, I ain't gotta set the pretense

You answered me with no pretense
And still I feel I said too much
My silence is my self defense

The world makes sense
There is no pretense

Did you sell your friends out when the heat got too intense?
You say you like the danger but it's only a pretense

3 black crows were sitting on a fence
Watching the world pass them by
Laughing at humanity and its pretense

In the times when I was on my own, if I’d had the sense
I’d have looked for somebody guileless and true, and we’d have dropped all pretense

I explore the depths on conflict and with no pretense
Found the best strategy the most impressive defense

And I'm frightened by the present tense
In a world without pretense

Was your kindness just pretense?
When there's no one left for you to clown
Who will stand at your defense?

We put up such a poor pretense
Don't hide a shred of evidence
We have no defense

For now it's wearing down the defense
And deconstructing every pretense

We'd revolt back to our Roots, use a little Common Sense
On a quest to make love De La Soul, no pretense

Have you been made dense standing upon the fence?
Have you been made dense from polish and pretense?

See we live in a world of false pretense
If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense

Living under pretense
Always on the defense

The ministry of truth at deals with pretense
The ministry of peace that sits on defense

It's all I have it's the best defense
I cannot see if you're kind or dangerous
I must believe it's all pretense