Left Me A Fool (Live - 1991)

Left Me A Fool (Live - 1991) - Indigo Girls

Written by：Emily Saliers

Everybody loves you and they want to know your story

You go riding out a mystery concealed in all your glory

But when it comes to flesh and bones you remind me of shallot

Only made of shadows

Even though you are not

I remember how I spend all my energy

And time with affected conversation

Trying to pry inside your mind you

Are as beautiful as truth and

As empty as a shell and I came to you one night

And it make me feel like hell

Oh to reach through all your surface

Just to find an empty pool

And to suffer all your pride

As I lay down by your side

And you swallowed up my heart

And left me a fool left me a fool

Everybody loves a hero an image to create

Antithesis of everything inside ourselves we hate

But you'd better close your eyes

When it's time for them to die

Because you'd hate to think

The life you'd build upon them was a lie

Oh to reach through all your surface

Just to find an empty pool

And to suffer all your pride

As I lay down by your side

And you swallowed up my heart and left me a fool left me a fool

I resign myself to silence I will never blow your cover

No one ever has to know who the hero too for lover

But it comes to mind as you blaze on as brilliant as a star

How many you've left behind how many casualties there are

Oh to reach through all your surface

Just to find an empty pool

And to suffer all your pride

As I lay down by your side

And you swallowed up my heart and left me a fool

Left me a fool