Love Fool

The other day I heard a song on the radio which I haven’t heard in years; The Cardigan’s Lovefool (lyrics below). I used to enjoy this song back when it came out mostly for the beats and the fact it was easy to sing along. The lyrics always made me laugh as I never though anyone could really be this “lovefool”

Until yesterday I didn’t even remember this song, but as I heard it and really listened to the lyrics I can now related for somehow I have become this crazy, naïve love fool. How can this be? How have I stooped so low to feel for someone in similar ways as the song mentions? What scares me more is that I don’t think I’m the only one. I think there are at least a handful of us who have somehow become this lovefool. Why do we want someone we care about to,

“Love me love me
say that you love me
fool me fool me
go on and fool me
love me love me
pretend that you love me
leave me leave me
just say that you need me”

Yes go so far as say pretend that you love me. Has it really become so hard to just let go that we rather have fake love, that we need this fake love to feel needed? As also stated, "Reason will not lead to solution/I will end up lost in confusion"


The Cardigans
Lovefool Lyrics

Dear, I fear we're facing a problem
you love me no longer, I know
and maybe there is nothing
that I can do to make you do
Mama tells me I shouldn't bother
that I ought to stick to another man
a man that surely deserves me
but I think you do!

So I cry, and I pray and I beg
Love me love me
say that you love me
fool me fool mego on and fool me
love me love mepretend that you love me
leave me leave me
just say that you need me

So I cried, and I begged for you to
Love me love me
say that you love me
leave me leave me
just say that you need me
I can't care about anything but you

Lately I have desperately pondered,
spent my nights awake and I wonder
what I could do have done in another way
to make you stay

Reason will not lead to solution
I will end up lost in confusion
I don't care if you really care
as long as you don't go

So I cried, and I begged for you to
Love me love me
say that you love me
leave me leave me
just say that you need me
I can't care about anything but you