Make Believe (from "Show Boat")

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
 Your pardon I pray
 'Twas too much to say
 The words that betray my heart.
 We only pretend
 You do not offend
 In playing a lover's part.
 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 convention's P's and Q's
 If we put our thoughts in practice
 We can banish all regret
 Imagining most anything we choose.
 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