"Why did you take it so seriously" are the lyrics in the song "Pretend".

"Pretend" is a song written, composed and sung by Chen Xuening. It was released on September 9, 2017. On January 20, 2019, the song won the Top Ten Song Award at the 2018 NetEase Cloud Music Original Ceremony. "Pretend" is the third solo EP independently released by Chinese-speaking female singer-songwriter Chen Xuening.

The song was composed by Chen Xuening herself from lyrics to music. Zhu Jianwei was invited to be the producer of this EP, responsible for the arrangement and post-production work of the song. The song as a whole still follows the popular style, with fresh, refined and unique singing as the main feature. The biggest highlight of this single is that the well-known Chengdu producer Zhu Jianwei was invited to be the EP producer. The combination of the right arrangement and good post-production makes the emotion contained in the song thicker and allows the audience to understand the depths of their own hearts. Causing screams.

Lyrics of "Pretend":

The cherries are red and the bananas are green, you walk on your single-plank bridge and I sing my tune, whose loneliness is like a knife, killing my grandmother Qiao, don’t be stupid and cut your hair short again. How could the shoes you gave me fall off if they fit? Whose ruthlessness is like poison. It doesn’t hurt if I drink it. I want to stay by your side. How pitiful you are with affection. You are innocent. Like an actor, he bursts into tears while speaking. The beginning of the story is always sweet. As time goes by, people's hearts change. This is the last cigarette. You swear to tell lies. Why did you take it too seriously in the first place.