easy there old man i ll drop you where you stand you wear wings of white but i smell your hellfire cause i know you are a racist and a coward and all you ve got to show for life is dust cause you lay roses on the ground and turn lies to common wisdom you re a good man when it suits you yes i know but whatever good you ve done is dwarfed by mountains made of wrong and your savior may forgive you but i won t oh but somebody loves you i guess they don t know better there s a fool for every fool and somebody loves you oh yeah somebody loves you and how can it be true fool for every fool and somebody loves you it was from you i learned some men can not be trusted and from you i learned some friends do not inspire cause you were like my brother but you filled my heart with anger and i ll thank you when those lessons have helped at all oh your stories gave me life and they flowed through me like wine but they were darkest pitch black arrows to my soul yes i was your true believer now my bones do shake and shiver with a poison that does rot me to the core oh but i did once love you i guess i knew no better yes i was once that fool and i did love you oh yes i did once love you and how can it be true i was once that fool and i did love you and like some ghastly phantom voice lifelong companion or a devil on left shoulder lashing tongue i spit crescent spite filled language like some drunkard to the heavens when to hell he knows his spirits surely bound yes i lay roses on the ground and deceive you beyond wisdom there s a good man in the shadows so i m told but whatever good i ve done is dwarfed by mountains made of wrong and that truth comes cold to blacken out the sun oh but somebody loves me i guess they don t know better there s a fool for every fool and somebody loves me oh yeah somebody loves me and how can it be true that somebody loves me somebody loves you