Lyrics to
Fool Yourself

This version of Fool Yourself was released by Bonnie Raitt in 1975.

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Lookout boy your bound to change
You can’t ever stay the same
Cause if ya keep on sayin the same ol’lies
Your gonna look around boy and find
Yourself outta time

Watchout girl the words you say
Don’t really fit the play
Somebody else you might talk to now
And knows what ya say and what ya mean
But don’t help this time

You might say that you ain’t
Got a, hold on yourself
You might say that you only try your best
You might say that you only need a rest
You might say you can only fool yourself
Fool yourself, fool yourself

Don’t believe the words you read
Their written on the street
Every time you try to lay their game
Their gonna knock you down
And take your pride away

See how bad you need to cry
But no matter how hard you try
Its the same old story once again
You always hide from the one
Who calls you friend
I call you friend

Fool yourself

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About Lyrics and Fool Yourself by Bonnie Raitt

The lyrics for Fool Yourself are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Bonnie Raitt. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Fool Yourself have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Fool Yourself - Bonnie Raitt and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Fool Yourself by Bonnie Raitt in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Fool Yourself" means the words set to the music of Fool Yourself, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bonnie Raitt. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Fool Yourself and the lyrics to Fool Yourself are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bonnie Raitt who came here looking just for the lyrics to Fool Yourself, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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