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I'm Not A Fool

by Rules Of This Game

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A dialogue about abuse that gets under your skin...

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Look into my eyes!

Tell me what can I do, 

To make you think, make you stop,

What you’re doing to me! 


No no no, don’t even try!

There’s nothing you can do, 

Cause you can’t speak, I won’t listen

And it doesn’t bother me. 


Look into your heart!

Is there something going on,

That will make you realize one day

There’s no need to abuse me? 


My mind and my heart

Lost connection years ago.
They both feel lost and incomplete,

But how to fix this I don’t know.


Can’t you see this can’t be right, 

Cause I want to be free?! 

Don’t you think there’s something wrong, 

The fucked up way you’re treating me?! 



I am not a fool!

Don’t you underestimate me! 

I am not your tool! 

You are not supposed to use me!


This is not a joke! 

It’s no fun if one is bleeding.
Even being choked,

I'm lost for words, but keep on pleading.

Think about it twice!
Can you please consider that,
I really mind and don’t want to
Be forced to live like that!

Since always I have closed my eyes

And learned how to ignore 

Your painful cries and not to see

The signs you’re giving me. 


I learned that this is how it goes,

I have been taught this way:
„Don’t look back and don’t look forth,

You can’t change it anyway“


And now I fear to figure out

The wrong I might have done.

As long as I can keep it up

I won’t put down my gun. 



Can’t you see this can’t be right, 

Cause I want to be free?! 

Don’t you think there’s something wrong, 

The fucked up way you’re treating me?! 



I am not a fool!

Don’t you underestimate me! 

I am not your tool! 

You are not supposed to use me!


This is not a joke! 

It’s no fun if one is bleeding.
Even being choked,

I'm lost for words, but keep on pleading.

Very soon I will be gone
And will not care no more.
Countless share my awful fate,
A still increasing rate.


I’m still here and walk around

My self-constructed world, 

Built of walls with painted windows,

For which I have been sold. 


It’s warm and easy in the middle,

Noise suppression for the whines,
But mind the gaps, mind the mines
And never cross the border line.

From a distance you can’t tell
The windows aren’t real,
But coming closer you will realize
The walls are bars of steel.


Can you see this can’t be right, 

Cause none of us is free?! 

Don’t you think there’s something wrong, 

The fucked up way they make you treat me?!

 


I am not a fool!

Don’t you underestimate me! 

I am not your tool! 

You are not supposed to use me!


This is not a joke! 

It’s no fun if one is bleeding.
Even being choked,

I'm lost for words, but keep on pleading.

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released April 28, 2023
Music & Lyrics - Alessa Mangesius
Music Production - Alessa Mangesius & Johannes Fröhling
Mixing & Mastering - Johannes Fröhling

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Rules Of This Game Cologne, Germany

Rock-Energy combined with EDM-Sounds and a Punk-Attitude! The duo Rules Of This Game was founded in 2018 in Cologne, Germany. Their genre mix, as well as the singer's special voice, create a music style that's catchy and out of the ordinary at the same time. The lyrics are complex and often deal with social and even political issues. Their credo is tolerance, democracy and environmental awareness. ... more

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