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Song
What A Fool Believes
The Doobie Brothers
Album:
Minute By Minute
Lyrics meaning of What A Fool Believes by The Doobie Brothers
"What A Fool Believes" is essentially the tale of a man thinking back on a previous relationship. He meets a woman he used to feel a connection with, and he persuades himself that she feels the same way. The story of the song centres on his mistaken notion that their love was meaningful and reciprocal. But in actuality, things are very different; she has moved on and no longer feels or remembers things the same way.
The song was written in Los Angeles by Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, who had been wanting to work together for a while. Hearing McDonald play a piece on the piano, Loggins went to his house and proposed they work on it since he already had a hook line ("She had a place in his life") in mind. Songs they listened to growing up, such "Sherry" and "Walk Like a Man" by the Four Seasons, had an influence on the song they created. The next day, they had the song finished.
What A Fool Believes lyrics by The Doobie Brothers
He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don't see
Tryin' hard to recreate
What had yet to be created once in her life
She musters a smile
For his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize
It never really was
She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go
But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him...
Somewhere back in her long ago
Where he can still believe there's a place in her life
Someday, somewhere, she will return
She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's watching her go
But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
There's nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees...
Release Date
1979
Songwriter/s
Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins
Producer/s
Ted Templeman
Label/s
Warner Bros.