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 Shalot

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 brilliant as truth and 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

Antithesis of everything inside themselves they hate

But you'd better close your eyes when it's time for them to die

Cause you'd hate to think the life we 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 comes to mind as you blaze on as brilliant as a star

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

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