The Verlaines Such As I lyrics

I've been waiting so long
I've been stuck at the end of a very long line
But I knew that one day you'd find
That all of these guys are killing with kindness
It's all based on the baser desires
Which I thought you would see through
To where I could impress you
But you haven't noticed the lengths that I've been to

I've been your fool, I've been your fool
I should have gotten a hold of myself
When I first saw you

I've been suffering so long
I've been led to extremes of my patience
'Til my knees went balding with prayer
I think of the night I spent wrecking my throat
When you didn't reply to all the letters I wrote you
Except to say it's been a beautiful day
Well that's as it may be
I've not been inclined to believe it

I've been your fool, I've been your fool
I should have gotten a hold of myself
When I first saw you


This posturing - pining is all very fine
But in hindsight it seems like a waste
You just have to swallow no matter how foul
Or how bitter the taste and no matter how late but
I've been studying my fate
I've been under a spell so that I might just as well
Have been tied like a dog to your gate

And when the fools are called
I'll be the biggest of all
For trying to give you what you didn't have use for
But where I've been the one-eyed man reigns
He's been king for ages

I see it plain, but all the same
It would have been better if it hadn't taken
All these years of pure heart-aching
To find out now I've been mistaken, no!
I've been your fool, I've been your fool
I've been your fool