Don’t Be Fooled

Driven out of bed with bright eyes
And yellow starlight
Fighting for a ghost of clarity
That slowly comes to me
By throwin' on a shirt and jeans
And a look of innocence

The red skies and gasoline
In the radiance
Burnin' on a stretch of concrete
With a racin' heartbeat
Tradin' in my years for hours
With the gods and cowards

And somewhere at the end of it
Where the road becomes a fence
She points into the infinite
Into the radiance

And she says
"don't be fooled
Don't be fooled
Don't be fooled by the real thing"

Out of sight, of mind, she chooses
For her scars and bruises
It hit like a pack of foul words
A spark confuses

I'm sittin' down the razor wire
I'm a captive of the ends
I see the search lights and forest fires
In the radiance

And she says
"wait, wait, there it is--
Don't be fooled
Don't be fooled
Don't be fooled by the real thing"

It's true
It's true
I believe

It's true
It's true
I believed her reasoning

"don't be fooled
Don't be fooled
Don't be fooled by the real thing"

"don't be fooled
Don't be fooled
Don't be fooled by the real thing"

And she says
"wait, wait, there it is"

And she says
"wait, wait"