Foolin' Myself

Billie Holiday · Complete Masters 1933 - 1959 [2011]

I try to keep you out of my heart

But somehow I find

Trying to keep you out of my heart

I'm out of my mind



I tell myself, "I'm through with you

And I'll having nothing more to do with you"

I stay away, but every day

I'm just foolin' myself



Tell my friends that I don't care

I shrug my shoulders at the whole affair

But all know it isn't so

I'm just foolin' myself



And ev'ry time I pass

And see my face in a looking glass

I tip my hat and say

"How do you do, you fool?

You're trowing your life away"



I'm acting gay, I'm acting proud

And every time I see you in a crowd

I may pretend but in the end

I'm just foolin' myself