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April Fool

Well there's a house on the hill
Where everything that happens goes down behind closed doors
And the mail man said I should check it out when I've got the time.
Seems like I've made a lifetime vocation of following those offers up
But I've yet to find a good answer no matter how I try.

Each time I go up I fall straight back down again.
There's a magnet that's drawing me deeper down into the fire.
If you had your way I'd be rottin' in sorrow for ever more,
Or you'd throw my pieces down into the funeral pyre.

Cast off your ties, let me whip you until your blood flows at my feet.
I'm not content with the flesh, where's your bones?
Let me sharpen my teeth.
I'm a heartless, spineless, shameless, unleashed wild animal
And you've got what it takes to fulfil all my needs.

I've been stuck on the ropes and on the canvas so many times that I've lost count.
And each time I've held my head high when the final bell's gone.
But if you think that you've found an April Fool, you'd better look again
Like that old fashioned saying "he who laughs last will laugh long".

Well I weren't born a quitter and I don't see why I should start right now,
You're not the first and I'm sure that you won't be the last
Who's tried to tear down the walls of this castle I've built up around my ears.
You're just a B movie like all the others but with a new cast.

History has proved through the ages that you'll never stand alone,
What with Hitler and Nappy and Saddam and Idi Amin.
But all of those tyrants were conquered and crushed down into the ground.
And your turn will come, mark my words I think you know what I mean.