Fool

I see you running with your friends
 I don't know why it comes to mind
 I think of you before our time
 You go all happy on your way
 I deny to meet the boys
 Neon lights and hitting noise
 And what'd you reckon, baby?
 Did it cut it? Did it work?
 Or did pretty boys and pretty words
 Bring more trouble than they're worth?
 And now another asking for your hand
 You don't know if you have it in your heart to roll the dice again
 I'd rather be the fool
 You'd know it if it's true
 Letting go and I'm gonna lose
 And old dampened youth
 I'd rather be the fool
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 I love you for all that you've fought
 I love you for your bitter twist
 Your gentle hand, your hopeless kiss
 Oh, I look into your eyes
 I read your mind and I can tell
 It's need has been read very well
 What you reckon, baby?
 Anybody put to worth?
 Or draw it off in someone's mind
 How it feels when we lock eyes
 And now another asking for your hand
 You don't know if you have it in your heart to roll the dice again
 I'd rather be the fool
 You'd know it if it's true
 Letting go and I'm gonna lose
 And old dampened youth
 I'd rather be the fool
 I tell myself I wish I'd met you sooner in the game
 That our hearts still are soothing and our love would play the same
 But I don't know, babe, might I shouldn't say
 I cannot time the light, I cannot time the pain
 I'd rather be the fool
 You'd know it if it's true
 Letting go and I'm gonna lose
 And old dampened youth
 I'd rather be the fool