“Everybody’s Fool” is a song by American rock band Evanescence. The song was released as the fourth and final single from their debut studio album, Fallen.
Lyrically, the song is about how celebrities fool the common folk into believing they’re perfect. They have no shame in lying to everyone, as i...
[Verse 1]
Perfect by nature
Icons of self-indulgence
Just what we all need
More lies about a world
[Chorus]
That never was and never will be
Have you no shame? Don't you see me?
You know you've got everybody fooled
[Verse 2]
Look, here she comes now
Bow down and stare in wonder
Oh, how we love you
No flaws when you're pretending
But now I know
[Chorus]
She never was and never will be
You don't know how you betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
[Bridge]
Without the mask
Where will you hide?
Can't find yourself
Lost in your lie
I know the truth now
I know who you are
And I don't love you anymore
[Chorus]
It never was and never will be
You don't know how you betrayed me
And somehow you've got everybody fooled
It never was and never will be
You're not real and you can't save me
And somehow now you're everybody's fool
Everybody’s Fool was written by Amy Lee & Ben Moody & David Hodges.
Everybody’s Fool was produced by Dave Fortman.
Evanescence released Everybody’s Fool on Mon Jun 07 2004.
Amy Lee stated in an interview with EW.com:
I was writing with the voice of an angsty teenager. It’s about my frustration with fakeness. It was the late ’90s and early ’00s, when all these bubblegum pop acts were super popular. I had young siblings, junior high and younger, who looked up to them at...
Amy Lee via Songfacts (2016)
It’s interesting to write songs when you’re in high school and then have them become your most famous songs, because you’re stuck singing the stuff you were hung up on when you were in high school when you’re 34. And I’m not really hung up about that so much anymore. I...