How Could I Be Such A Fool
Lyrics
CRUISING WITH RUBEN & THE JETS version -
When I won your love
I was very glad
Every happiness in the world
Belonged to me
Then our love was lost
And you went away
Now I shed my tears
In lonely misery
I know now that you never ever really loved me
It hurts me now to think you never ever really cared
I sit and ask myself a thousand times
To try and find
What really happened to the love that we shared
How could I be such a fool?
How could I believe all those lies you told me?
How could I be taken in by your sweet face?
You spoiled our love
You ruined my life
I'm so, so down
I'm a terrible disgrace
But there will come a time
And you'll regret the way
You treated me as if I was a fool
And didn't know
The many times you lied
About your love for me
Someone else is gonna know
That your love was just a show
How could I be such a fool?
Players On This Song
CRUISING WITH RUBEN & THE JETS version
- Frank Zappa (Lead guitar and vocals)
- Ray Collins (lead vocals)
- Roy Estrada (Electric bass and vocals),
- Jimmy Carl Black (Drums)
- Arthur Dyer Tripp III (Drums)
- Ian Underwood (Keyboards and Tenor & alto sax)
- Don Preston (Keyboards)
- Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood (Baritone sax and tambourine),
- Bunk Gardner (Tenor & alto sax)
1984 Remix:
- Jay Anderson (String bass)
- Arthur Barrow (Bass)
- Chad Wackerman (drums)
Records On Which This Song Has Appeared
Singles
- How Could I Be Such a Fool? (02:13) / Help, I'm a Rock, Third Movement: It Can't Happen Here (02:41) - The Mothers Of Invention (Verve VK 10418, June 29, 1966)
Zappa Albums & Side Projects
- Freak Out!
- The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh) (2006)
- The MOFO Project/Object (Deluxe Edition) (2006)
- Cruising With Ruben & The Jets
- Mystery Disc
- FZ:OZ
- Joe's Corsage
Beat The Boots
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Compilations
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Unauthorized Compilations
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Samplers And Promos
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Special Editions
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Miscellaneous
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Tribute & Cover Albums
Notes About This Song
FZ liner notes on "Freak Out!" (1966): "'How Could I Be Such A Fool' is based on a modified nanigo rhythm. We call it a Motown Walz. It stays in 3/4 time throughout, but shifts in the accents occur from section to section. As an American teen-ager (as an American), this means nothing to you. (I always wondered if I could write a love song.)."
This song is not on the 1LP version of "Freak Out"
