Indigo Girls - Left Me A Fool lyrics

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