Sarah Mary Chadwick - Fools Like Me lyrics

rate me

well I spread all the joy, spread all the joy

all over the world

and I just wind up here, year after year

no better, just worse

and I've less energy to love and to be

the person I am

and the people I see make me angry, not happy

but it's fools like me who could take all this

from a serpent's bite to a tender kiss

and it's fools like me who can't live long enough

to explain… or change… anything

can't return to the past, before I broke that glass

on the cold concrete floor

I'm so frozen and stuck, feel so down on my luck

locked door after locked door

and there's glimpses of things, impossible springs

of beauty, crystal and clear

but just as I touch, just as I learn to love

it's like it never was here

because it's fools like me who could take all this

from a serpent's bite to a tender kiss

and it's fools like me who can't live long enough

to explain

and it's fools like me who will watch their souls

drain slowly away down invisible holes

and the world lights up, then goes dark again, and again

and again

but i remember the bits, the wonderful bits

so brilliant and few

all colored with loves in candlelit bars (??)

and colored by you

and with all the fools, the millions of fools

oh, one for every star

I'll keep writing these tunes, and took over my blues

at least until it's too hard

because it's fools like me who could take all this

from a serpent's bite to a tender kiss

and it's fools like me who can't live long enough

to explain

and it's fools like me who will watch their souls

drain slowly away down invisible holes

and the world lights up, then goes dark again, and again

and again

and again