Musical Mondays - Foolish Games

For this week

(even though I don't know if MissAngie is doing one this week)

In honor of my first girlfriend,

The song is "Foolish Games" by Jewel.

(I know this has lyrics in it, but I'll include some anyhow for your reading pleasure.

Plus, I think this person may have screwed them up a bit.)

You took your coat off and stood in the rain,

You were always crazy like that.

And I watched from my window,

Always felt I was outside

Looking in on you.

You were always the mysterious one with

Dark eyes and careless hair.

You were fashionably sensitive,

But too cool to care.

You stood in my doorway,

With nothing to say

Besides some comment on the weather.

Well in case you failed to notice,

In case you failed to see,

This is my heart bleeding before you.

This is me down on my knees.

These foolish games are tearing me apart.

And your thoughtless words are breaking my heart.

You're breaking my heart.

You're always brilliant in the morning,

Smoking your cigarettes and talking over coffee.

Your philosophies on art, Baroque moved you,

And you loved Mozart.

And you'd speak of your loved ones

As I clumsily strummed my guitar.

You'd teach me of honest things,

Things that were daring,

Things that were clean,

Things that knew what an honest dollar did mean.

So I hid my soiled hands behind my back.

Somewhere along the line I must've gone off track with you.

Well, excuse me,

Guess I've mistaken you for somebody else,

Somebody who gave a damn,

Somebody more like myself.

These foolish games are tearing me,

They're tearing me,

You're tearing me apart.
And your thoughtless words are breaking my heart.
You're breaking my heart.

You took your coat off,

And stood in the rain,

You were always crazy like that.

The music video for this song is gorgeous, but it is shorter than the album version, which I believe I included here (can't listen to it at work). So, yeah. Enjoy.