Lyrics David Bromberg

David Bromberg

Will Not Be Your Fool

You’ve hurt me for the last time

Yeah you finally went and broke my only rule

It’s the last time

you finally went and broke my golden rule

I’ll be your lover or your friend darling

But I’ll be goddamn if I’m ever gonna be your fool

I will be there when you need me baby

but I don’t wanna be your toy -- listen here

If a plaything is all you want me for

You can get up, go out and get yourself another boy

Because I took that class

I graduated Phi Beta goddamn Kappa from that school

I’ll be your lover or your friend darling

But I’m never, ever, ever gonna be your fool

I gave you all I had to give honey

I sincerely tried to keep you satisfied

I gave you everything I own

I truly tried to keep you satisfied

I gave you all my heart, my love, my car, my money, my

house, my children

The least you coulda done was let me keep one small,

tiny shred of my pride

I would work for you all day

And I would love you all night

I swore and promised to stand beside you baby when

you’re wrong, yeah when you’re right

But look here sugar lips

There’s one thing in this life that I’d never ever do

for you

I’ll be your lover or your friend darling – yes I will

But I refuse to be your fool

Well you gambled with my love this time sweetheart

But I want you to understand this is one time you

finally lost your bet

You’re gambling with my love

This time you lost the bet

Hey look any man dumb enough to hang around for the

kind of stuff you hand out

Would deserve every low-kick rotten-leg dirty trick you

and I both know that he’d get

I know you just cooked up this mess to find out exactly

how

Long you could keep me stuck in it

Pick up your telephone dial information ask for the

time

You can calculate it to the last goddamn minute, now

look-

You did not have to hurt me baby

No you did not need to be that cruel

I’ll be your lover or your friend darling

I’ll be Goddamn, 6 feet under ground, dead in my grave,

buried and long forgot

I’ll be so long gone and forgot that my flesh will have

turned and returned to the nutrients and elements and

the molecules from which it originated

I mean to say that the genus and species of worms that

used to crawl in and out of the sockets of my eyelid

holes will vanish from the face of the earth

I need to say I’ll see the earth leave its orbit

I’ll wear the rings of Saturn for a ring around my

little pinky

I’ll let your sister marry a Venutian

I will see you dead

I’ll see your lover dead

I’ll see his lover dead

I’ll see his lover dead

I’ll see his lover dead

I’ll see that faggot dead

I’ll see everyone you ever knew, loved, touched, stood

next to, heard of, smelt, felt, dreamed about in your

life or any of your descendant’s lives -- down to the

168th person

Roasted and tortured in hell

For 1 billion trillion years

16 eternity’s

27 forevers

11 thousand years after that before I will be your

fool!