You Can't Fool Yourself

How can you sleep, knowing you'll reap just what you sow?

Living a lie, making them cry, breakin' their homes

Preachin' false love, with that smile on your face

Then you run away to your satins and lace

Where you can hide your deceptive face

Just knowin' you got me fooled, just like everyone else

But you can't fool yourself

How will you feel, when you must deal with all you've done?

How will you know it's time to go, back on the run?

And what will you do

When there's no one left to turn to?

Will you come back to me, with your arms open wide

Sayin' that you're sorry for the times that you lied?

Just knowin' you got me fooled, just like everyone else

But you can't fool yourself

Now what you gonna do, baby, when you're old and gray

And all your so-called friends and lovers

Lord, have gone down on their way?

Will you wish you'd kept me, baby

And sent the rest of them on their way?

Will you wish you knew then what you know today?

What will you do when your life is through, and you must see

Where you have been? Ain't it a sin 'cause you're not with me?

You'll be alone, all on your own, in eternity

Then you'll think of days and so many ways

That you'll have to pay