Left Me A Fool - Live - 1991

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 comes 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