Everybody’s Fool – English Lyrics

• By: Evanescence
• Album: Fallen

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the themes of authenticity and disillusionment with Evanescence's powerful anthem, "Everybody's Fool." This song dissects the superficiality of fame and encourages listeners to embrace their true selves, offering a lesson in media literacy and self-acceptance .

[English]

(harp plays)

- Dinner's ready

- Pepperoni.

- Mmm. I love it.

- And you made it all by yourself?

That's our girl.

- There is nothing better than a good lie.

(guitar music plays)

(hard rock music plays)

♪ Perfect by nature ♪

♪ Icons of self-indulgence ♪

♪ Just what we all need ♪

♪ More lies about a world that ♪

♪ Never was and never will be ♪

♪ Have you no shame? Don't you see me ♪

♪ You know you've got everybody fooled ♪

(electric guitar playing)

♪ Look, here she comes now ♪

♪ Bow down and stare in wonder ♪

♪ Oh, how we love you ♪

♪ No flaws when you're pretending ♪

♪ But now I know she ♪

♪ Never was and never will be ♪

♪ You don't know how you've betrayed me ♪

♪ And somehow you've got everybody fooled ♪

♪ Without the mask ♪ - Oh my God. Look.

♪ Where will you hide ♪ - It's definitely her.

- I think that is her. - Definitely.

- Excuse me.

♪ Can't find yourself ♪ - Are you who I think you are?

- Yeah it's totally her!

♪ Lost in your lie ♪ - Looks so much older

than I thought she would! Haha

♪ I know the truth now ♪

♪ I know who you are ♪

♪ And I don't love you anymore ♪

♪ It never was and never will be ♪

♪ You don't know how you've betrayed me ♪

♪ And somehow you've got everybody fooled ♪

♪ It never was and never will be ♪

♪ You're not real and you can't save me ♪

♪ And somehow now you're everybody's fool ♪

(hard rock music playing) (choir vocalizing)

(choir vocalizing)

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
lie /laɪ/ B2	noun - a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive verb - to be in a horizontal position on a surface
truth /truːθ/ C1	noun - the real facts about something
face /feɪs/ B1	noun - the front part of the head that includes the eyes, nose, and mouth
betray /bɪˈtreɪ/ C1	verb - to be disloyal to someone or to reveal secrets
pretend /prɪˈtɛnd/ B2	verb - to act as if something is true when it is not
hide /haɪd/ B1	verb - to put or keep out of sight
mask /mæsk/ B2	noun - a covering for the face verb - to cover or conceal
shame /ʃeɪm/ B2	noun - a painful feeling of humiliation or distress
worthy /ˈwɜːr.ði/ C1	adjective - deserving effort, attention, or respect
truthful /ˈtruːθ.fəl/ C2	adjective - telling or expressing the truth
illusion /ɪˈluːʒən/ C1	noun - a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived
hypocrisy /hɪˈpɒkrəsi/ C2	noun - pretending to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs they do not actually possess

Key Grammar Structures

• Have you no shame?

  ➔ Inversion for emphasis with 'have you no' meaning 'do you have no...'

  ➔ "Have you no" is a question form using inversion to emphasize the negative implication.

• Never was and never will be

  ➔ Use of negative inversion in present and future tense to emphasize impossibility

  ➔ This phrase uses negative inversion to express that something is impossible or does not exist.

• You don't know how you've betrayed me

  ➔ Use of present perfect to describe an action that has ongoing relevance or impact

  ➔ The present perfect 'have betrayed' indicates the action was completed in the past but is relevant to the present situation.

• Look, here she comes now

  ➔ Use of simple present tense after 'look' to indicate a near future or imminent action

  ➔ This construction implies the speaker is pointing out or observing something that is about to happen or is happening now.

• You're not real and you can't save me

  ➔ Use of present simple with modal 'can't' to express inability

  ➔ The present simple 'are' and 'can't' express a general state of non-existence and inability.