Fools in love
Are there any other kinds of lovers
Fools in love
Is there any other kind of pain

Everything you do, everywhere you go now
Everything you touch, everything you feel
Everything you see, everything you know now
Everything you do, you do it for your baby love, your baby love, your baby love, your baby love

Fools in love
Are there any creatures more pathetic
Fools in love
Never knowing when they've lost again

Everything you do, everywhere you go now
Everything you touch, everything you feel
Everything you see, everything you know now
Everything you do, you do it for your baby love, your baby love, your baby love, your baby love

Fools in love they think they're heroes because they get to feel no pain
I say fools in love are zeros
I should know, I should know because this fool's in love again

Fools in love
Gently hold each other's hands forever
Fools in love
Gently tear each others limb from limb

Everything you do, everywhere you go now
Everything you touch, everything you feel
Everything you do, even rock alone now
Nothing mean a thing except you and your baby love, your baby love, your baby love, your baby love

Fools in love they think they're heroes
Because they get to feel no pain
I say fools in love are zeros,
I should know, I should know because this fool's in love again.


Lyrics submitted by technicolorgrrrl, edited by sightseek7

Fools in Love Lyrics as written by Joe Jackson

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    wow, i'm the first person to comment.

    i love this song, to me the lyrics are pretty direct, it's about how when you fall in love nothing else matters except for your love. you'll leave anything, do anything for your baby love.

    Naraon January 07, 2006   Link
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    beautiful.

    publicon January 15, 2006   Link
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    This song is great; they do such an amazing job covering it.

    BaroqueSocialon March 07, 2006   Link
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    The only time when most people would rather be foolish than wise. A truly pretty song.

    wolf cubon April 15, 2006   Link
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    i like how she seems so jaded towards love and then it's revealed that she is in love herself. it shows how you can be experiencing something but also realize how foolish you seem.

    jemappellearielleon July 06, 2006   Link
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    Gorgeous. And I love it how she turns the song around to talk about herself at the end.

    _gnat_on October 05, 2006   Link
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    "Fools in love Never knowing when they've lost again"

    i thought it was never knowing when they've lost the game.

    quietgreyeyeson April 03, 2007   Link
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    BaroqueSocial ... this isn't a cover...

    zoolahon September 21, 2007   Link
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    Zoolah, it is a cover. The original was written and recorded by Joe Jackson.

    EmancipationofJamieon September 26, 2007   Link
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    I really think this song is about how she used to find couples and people in love to be well foolish, in how their world is consumed by one another (Everything you do, everywhere you go now Everything you touch, everything you feel Everything you see, everything you know now Everything you do, you do it for your baby love) And how by them doing that are pathetic (Are there any creatures more pathetic Fools in love Never knowing when they've lost again). In lamens terms the subject could of been a bitter fifth wheel who finally finds a man after sometime.

    sammeh17on December 19, 2009   Link

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