Calogero Dean: Music
Great Illusion
(Calogero Dean)
Lee H./ Copeland
This song is taken from a Copeland Song of the same name
Maybe it was all a mistake
could’ve saved my heart ache but I found out too late
Now I got too much on my plate
would’ve swallowed my pride but I just ate
that’s great.
That’s something I’ve done too many times before
should’ve just closed the door but I’m running back for more.
Seconds and thirds I’m so absurd
What kind of Cat falls in love with a Bird
Maybe I’m just in love with being in love
Afraid of being alone so I push and shove
until I get to the front of the line only to find
that everything I love is what I left behind
so I look back in the distance to see what I missed
betrayed everything for a kiss
Ask myself “how did it come to this?”
maybe love doesn’t even exist.
It occurred to me at once
That love could be a great illusion
That makes fools of brilliant thinkers everyday
And sends hearts of stone and steel
To a place where they would feel
Like they are falling, falling quickly in its way
I thought I had enough love for the both of us
It turns out it wasn’t enough
so when you said you didn’t need me
I called your bluff
you would never hurt me I had my mind made up
and it’s not because of you I felt like a fool
but because of me I broke my own Cardinal Rule
I said I'd never fall in love with somebody who didn’t want me
Now my decision has come back to haunt me
and I know I'll probably do it again
Even though I know I’ll probably never win
and I cringe when I hear “Let just be friends”
Cause we were never friends in the begin- End
Everything before it gets ahead of us
no time for the dot dots etceteras
Maybe I should end it now and slit my wrist
Maybe love doesn’t even exist
It occurred to me at once
That love could be a great illusion
That makes fools of brilliant thinkers everyday
And sends hearts of stone and steel
To a place where they would feel
Like they are falling, falling quickly in its way
Falling, falling quickly in its way
Is it any surprise that you feel so overrun?
And all this time you had no one to tell you how to love
And do you thinks it's unwise to go and break yourself on this one?
And all this time you didn't know love (didn't know love)
You didn't know love (didn't know love)
You didn't know love (didn't know love)
You didn't know love...
It occurred to me at once
That love gets everything it asks for...
And I get left with
broken arms and broken hands that’ll never touch anyone again
and even if they can they’ll be trapped in trance
to the point that I feel like half of a man
the other half of me is tricked by symmetry
led to a memory that’ll never be
led by two eyes that’ll never see
the levity of everything you did to me
and what I did to myself and what I did to you
cause I did a lot of things I said I’d never do
And no matter how hard you try if someone doesn’t love you
you can’t changed how they feel
And not matter how elaborately you fool yourself
wanting something doesn’t make it real
So I dig into my bag of tricks to see something
I missed it
Love- It never existed
It occurred to me at once
That love could be a great illusion
That makes fools of brilliant thinkers everyday
And sends hearts of stone and steel
To a place where they would feel
Like they are falling, falling quickly in its way
Falling, falling quickly in its way