I'm A Fool (For Fancying You)

from 'Popapocalypse!' (Full Album) by A short Dark Stranger

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A short Dark Stranger does Elvis Presley (with the hip shaking, but without the burgers...).

Oh, and with a lot more explosions! And I do mean a *lot* more...

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I don't know what I see in you
The antithesis of all I do
For nothing's sacred to a heart
That wouldn't care - man blown apart!

I've turned myself black & white
Pandering to you
Though Occam's Razor says "you're just a bitch"..
(And all my friends do too..)

Still -

I'm a fool for fancying you

I'm a fool but not an idiot
And I see that you are
Volatile - but with such style
And that's how I've been caught!

And what can I do?

And all your qualities I abhor
Merely make me crave you more and more!
(Though I can see your many flaws)
You hold my heart - but you don't deserve it!
For all you are is so self serving!

You put your put downs, cheap jokes
On your "at my expense account"
Still - your twinkling eyes of cruelty
Knock my senses out..

Still -

I'm a fool for fancying you

I'm a fool but not an idiot
And I see that you are
Volatile - but with such style
And that's how I've been caught!

Behind the barricades of your bitchiness
Is there affection in your eyes?
Still - I fan the flames of your ego
To such a supercilious size!
He sighs
He sighs
He sighs -
And I don't know why!

But -

I'm a fool for fancying you
I'm a fool for fancying you

When you surrender your heart
To a vulgar little tart
Then all you will feel
Is how she wants you to feel..

How she'll make you reel!

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from 'Popapocalypse!' (Full Album), released February 29, 2020
A short Dark Stranger - Vocals, Stylophone, Keyboards, Synthesisers, Electric Guitars, Programming

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A Short Dark Stranger Leeds, UK

A Leeds based purveyor of pumping power pop!

80s / 90s style throbbing, crashingly catchy synth-pop epics with cathartic, heartfelt, emotionally honest, cynical yet wittily pithy, observational and self deprecatingly amusing lyrics.

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