Left Me a Fool 

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're not

i remember how i spent

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 made 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

the 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 built 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 took for lover

but it has come 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