Author: Indigo Girls

Album title: Strange Fire



Left Me a Fool

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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 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 made me feel like hell.

chorus: 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 built upon

them was a lie.



chorus:



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.



chorus:



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Reformatted and extracted to a single lyric file by Doug Henkle