Fool's Paradise

Pat Grigadean

May 17, 2016

This is the final song in the “Heartbreak Quatrain”. I think I wrote it, in part, as a message to my new boyfriend. Apparently, he didn’t get it - as I learned in a rather unpleasant way, some years later.

I don’t want to be the last one to know
Why won’t you tell me if you’re going to go?
Keeping a secret is not very nice
So if you love another please tell me; don’t leave me in a fool’s paradise.

You know I’ve been faithful and I’ll always be true
You know everything, dear, that I think, say, and do
But if there’s another, please take my advice
Tell me the truth and don’t leave me to live in a fool’s paradise.

A fool’s paradise may seem cozy and warm
And I’m in paradise when I’m here in your arms
The truth it might hurt me, but I’ll pay the price
Dear, if you love me don’t leave me to live in a fool’s paradise.

I know you’re a free man that no woman can hold
But if you love another I ought to be told
To love you is heaven and I won’t ask you twice
Don’t let my heaven turn out to be nothing but a fool’s paradise.

A fool’s paradise may seem cozy and warm
And I’m in paradise when I’m here in your arms
The truth it might hurt me, but I’ll pay that price
Dear, if you love me don’t leave me to live in a fool’s paradise
Yes, dear, if you love me don’t leave me to live in a fool’s paradise.