Quittin' after one more last one
Tired of playin' the clown
If I want your opinion I'll ask ya
I can get myself down
Night driving without headlight
Wearin' sunglasses too
Lookin' good but sure don't feel right
Anything to be cool
Doin' hopscotch with my legs tied
Jumpin' rope in wet cement
Black leather in midday sunshine
All your mother's money's spent
Doin' time on the metal detector
Like to drown in your pool
Coverin' up everything that's defective
Anything to be cool
A burning heart could be so cool
Won't you be my fashion victim
Come on, I'm an April Fool for you
Holdin' on to what's left of real life
Anything to be cool
Anything to be cool
Anything to be cool
Anything to be cool
A burning heart like an April Fool
Won't you be my fashion victim
Come on, I'm an April Fool
I'm a mid-spring snowfall, joke's on you
I'm an April Fool for you
I'm an April Fool for you
I'm an April Fool
I'm an April Fool for you
A burning heart like an April Fool
Won't you be my fashion victim
Come on, I'm an April Fool
I'm a mid-spring snowfall, joke's on you
I'm an April Fool for you
I'm an April Fool for you
I'm an April Fool
I'm an April Fool for you
I'm an April Fool
I'm an April Fool for you
I'm an April Fool
- Soul Asylum's "April Fool",
from their classic 1992 album Grave Dancer's Union
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I actually had planned to post a music video of this song on the appropriate day, only to discover there never was one (though a live version exists on Youtube). It's kind of a hard rockin' tune, so I'm not sure it works as a poetic lyric in print, but that's okay.
After my new Indianapolis project leader Doug Hanson had me listen to this song on his Walkman in early 1993, I bought the CD and fell in love with it. I had already heard and liked its big hit "Runaway Train"; soon, I was liking every song on the album and still do.
Soul Asylum was formed in Minneapolis in the 1980s, but didn't reach success until the grunge music fad made this band's similar style of music popular. However, it didn't last beyond this one album. Subsequent releases all flopped (I only heard the very next album, which I didn't like), and by the time I saw them playing at the Vogue music club in Indianapolis about five year later, there were only perhaps 100 or so people in attendance.
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