Chris Rea FOOL IF YOU THINK IT'S OVER Song & Lyrics

[@gabrielhalston6726]

Great melody and arrangement along w/the words. Chris Rea wrote this song as inspired by his sister's (Paula) break up with her boyfriend. Song was intended to be sung by Al Green, but I'm glad he didn't do it. Chris Rea knocks it out of the park w/this release in 1978.

[@lorainelavoy4083]

I absolutely love this song forever!

[@roberthall723]

Should be the national anthem for every young girl who had her heart broken. My niece experienced her first 'lost love" recently. I told her to give this song a listen and pay attention to the lyrics. She will figure out in time that she was much too good for the little bastard anyway.

[@mervyncelso872]

I would suggest Janet Ians "At Seventeen" also. Both great songs.

[@tommym7646]

Mervyn Celso "At Seventeens" even sadder since it talks about the disparity of attractiveness you learn early in school where eventually differences in wealth and education will also be barriers in a class system

[@roberthall723]

***** Bless her heart. At that age, they think their life is over and they have nothing more to live for. My niece has since met a terrific kid/boyfriend, and all is well in her world once again! Hope your #3 girl finds her right guy soon.

[@danielbhoumik4379]

robert hall

[@karmakelly9149]

Daniel Bhoumik. ...................

[@liljerseygirl249]

Love his voice, & great song!

[@JP5466]

This great song is way too short... that's why Iisten to it over and over again.

[@djmyers71]

When a song stands the test of time over and over...you know its grippingly good. This song is just that.

[@javiersigala9353]

Beautiful song.. This is timeless music...

[@lucastorres5175]

so simple and yet so perfect.❤️

[@patrickwalker3568]

TRACI SISERA-I LOVE YOU FOREVER!!!!!! THIS SONG REMINDS ME OF YOU, CIRCA '78/79. SMOKY HILL HIGH SCHOOL, AURORA ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO.

[@cloakedvisor]

Yes, this song holds a lot of good memories.....beautiful classic song

[@stellagentilini7052]

LOVE THIS SONG

[@johnvandehey7002]

It IS the original. Been listening to this version since '78, when I was 33. Lyrics and arrangement with that beautiful string section and bass sets the mood for this classic about unrequited love. No problem for me to have moist eyes while listening.

[@actionsub]

This is the radio edit of the original. There's a verse that's been edited out, mainly to create a shorter cut for the AM radio that still existed then.

[@johnvandehey7002]

@@actionsub Thanks for the clarification Mike. It was the radio version I always heard, so that's what I was comparing it to. You're a music detail guy like me. I like that. I'm 76 and been watching & listening to the pop sounds since Bandstand in 1957, through Soul Train in the early 90s, and past then, but it's been spotty for the last couple decades as the songs and music have changed for the worst IMO . . . . . John

[@carolelinda6476]

I totally love this song and Chris' voice.

[@donnasalonga759]

Love this song..

[@candygirl9230]

Always will be my all time favorite song-----wish I could go back in time ---don't we all.

[@banthony9154]

Very nice! This is the single edit 1978 - the original hit!

[@daveyuke8]

An amazing timeless song, and we have all been there.

[@ncblonde1]

I love this song so much, the memories it brings back.......

[@toniahern5179]

really great song and thanks so much for the lyrics i heard he wrote this song for his sister thanks for sharing

[@dollydagger4306]

Thank you so much for uploading this. I loved this song as a kid--still love--and thank you for the lyrics. I was way off with the lyrics, filling in my own lyrics with what I thought he said. Now the song makes more sense.🙃

[@jamesedwardkruger7258]

Beautiful and sad at the same time!!! The fond memories when love was REAL, and our hearts were genuinely broken. Thank you for the memories ... The nostalgia!~

[@toddcote2710]

Makes me miss my child hood days I love my God

[@AriMirandaCim]

This Song Is Soooo Pretty! :)

[@kyrstenleeh5661]

nice song ♥

[@ThePrinceOfCommonSense]

I❤️‍🔥You TARA💜

[@briancrowley6413]

great song, so many poetic phrases......

[@deniserancourt2360]

beautiful song, brings me back to the old days long ago, just the kind of song that it is

[@tinfoilhatter]

i know, right? like, at the time, i was more into louder, busier stuff, i was a new drummer/guitar kid! but chris is the man! he just really evokes some kinda magic with that song, that track! it's still happening, how about that! my alltime favorite track of his, if it's not this one, i think is 'on the beach', he did years later...that one takes me back, it's irresistible! good thing he's a nice guy, or chris would be dangerous, haha!

[@lynnfullarton5622]

Donna Tomlinson..... my good friend used to always play this. R.I.P Donna xxxxxx

[@1950324]

Потрясающее исполнение ! Спасибо!

[@sevencorsa]

This should have easily been a number 1 song on Billboard

[@joanrico405]

i love the 70s

[@RobertMOdell]

so optimistic, and yet not all pain is so easily brushed aside.

[@helios1912]

The lryics and the haunting arrangement cut like a scalpel. I bought this LP in the late 1970s --still play it and still moved by it

[@JimAnderson-v4w]

the 70's was the best time to be coming up, the airwaves were dominated by one hit after another all day and night, malls and head shops were popping up everywhere, you couldn't help but to be happy. 👍

[@MemeMeme-bp2pb]

I do not know many songs that are more beautiful than this one ...

[@lindamaserruz1168]

How do we get those times back !?😉😟🙃❤️

[@venussalas8833]

oh yes memories good ones

[@09jitters]

I was the fool and I knew it was over as soon as I saw the look in her eyes. My mistake for not loving and taking care of her and the love she gave so devoutly.

[@javiersigala9353]

Been there. But we move on and learn from our mistakes..

[@nihilistteddy3]

I was born in 79 lol, this is the first time I've ever heard it but i like it. I love classic r & b or whatever you would call this

[@TammyHurt_Lovelydayz]

This Genre is Soft Rock.

[@joebegue1341]

Nice song !

[@bravesfan11221969]

I was a small child when this was released, but at the age of 42, it still brings back so many memories of my entire life....

[@tinfoilhatter]

somethin' about chris' voice, and soul, is radiant and immortal! songs are spells, i only like the good ones!

[@Krishnan564]

I love song this very much

[@trueblue2k2]

Lyrics in verse form below. Chris' unique style in this version omits key words for effect. Some of his other versions seen on YT include the missing words. Dyin' flame, you're free again. Who could love ... do that to you? All dressed in black ... he won't be comin' back. Save your tears ... got years and years. The pains of seventeen are really only dreams, Save your cryin' for the day. Fool if you think it's over Cause you said goodbye-ee-i-yigh. Fool if you think it's over ... tell you why. Newborn eyes always cry with pain First look at the mornin' sun. Fool if you think it's over ... just begun. This teenage queen ... such a tragic scene. He knocked your crown and ran away. First wound of pride and how you cried and cried. Save your tears ... got years and years. Fool if you think it's over Cause you said goodbye-ee-i-yigh. Fool if you think it's over ... tell you why. I'll buy your first good wine, Ooh we'll have a real good time. Save your cryin' for the day. Newborn eyes always cry with pain First look at the mornin' sun. Fool if you think it's over ... just begun.

[@annaortmans4240]

sweet memories............

[@wildstyl1]

A song that disappeared from my mind. Came on Pandora the other day and stopped me in my tracks. The song plays constantly in my mind now. Rediscovered and better than ever

[@edithkerr798]

love this song it true there is a old man 50 years the VA. it not over we have just began

[@DonnaMarang]

I LOVE THIS SONG. HE GOT A AWESOME VOICE.

[@fareedazaman6523]

i just love you and you make my life worrth it and i bow and love you god bless you amen

[@radixreuel7631]

YES.

[@ccalccol]

entered Billboard July 8, 1978 ..reached #12

[@justathought973]

That was my first love's birthday. We started going out together on my 14th birthday, May of 78, she was 10 months older than me. I still think of her till this day.

[@tinfoilhatter]

@@justathought973 hey, you're about a [year and a] month or so older than me...just sayin': ... sorry-about-that, ha ha~~

[@SuperForgetaboutit]

My sweet Judy loves this song...and I love her. JMC

[@djmyers71]

extremeley well said.

[@jennifergriffithe118]

Oh so nice.

[@genivaldobatistakaiser]

I like very much this song.

[@patrickwalker7827]

I 💘 you TRACY!!!

[@bencurry5295]

If we could only see it then,Young love,Its still love ;)

[@tomislavpotocar91]

What awaits us AFTER this life ? CONTINUE THE PROGRAM and TRANSLATE in SANSKRIT, PLEASE !

[@pabloxicano5775]

I was 8 years old.... great memories~

[@rodyates2669]

Love is a drug of addiction!

[@edpolk1262]

Great arrangement of the string section.

[@daschundloverable]

and the sax.

[@cherryvanilla2730]

It ain't over.......

[@jamesmorrison8561]

Its just begun......

[@juliomucellini720]

Remember saravah en salto, uruguay 70s great time

[@OdedFriedGaon]

gooooooooooood song.

[@tinfoilhatter]

it really is, right? in fact, i daresay you could-even-call-it GREAT~ what the heck is the difference between a great song, and all-the-others, i wonder.... well, the great ones never stop talkin' to us, man, for one thing, that's what i think... haha

[@TheLucasViews]

I was about 13 when this came out. "The pains of 17" seemed impossibly far away. Now it's a new millennium and I'mm a Gramma. Who knew time would go so fast?

[@beehiveear8883]

So touchingly sweet. Same here, except I was 15 in 1978

[@oneidacarbo3389]

17💞

[@patrickjohnnybobbin7323]

I'll bet your a beautiful grandmother too !!

[@tinfoilhatter]

same here! i mean, i'm fourteen for over forty years already, this is strange, haha!!

[@musicwithcolors2683]

... (simples e lindo) ...

[@1950324]

Душевно.!!!!

[@jessicamiranda4735]

❤️❤️❤️

[@juancarlosjimenezpadilla1000]

Y E A H

[@helios1912]

Thanks djmyers71. I like your "grippingly good"

[@StratsRgreat]

If u like this and who doesn't...pick up Kenny Loggins first solo effort 'Celebrate Me Home'....beautiful songs like this throughout and came out a couple years earlier.

[@jeliarra]

Wait! I thinks I remember! It's coming back,..wait for it... Oh yeah! There was a time not so very long ago when it was acceptable to have heart ache from a broken heart, because one had been in love. When we could be seen in a moment of weakness because love can be a monster sometimes. What were we thinking back in the day? Silly us for being compassionate!

[@nancybogart3899]

DK Dempcey Knight DK you are GREAT!

[@tinfoilhatter]

don't be-a-fool: i don't think-it's-over, either, man, if that's what you're sayin', right?

[@jeliarra]

@@tinfoilhatter I am no fool thank you very much. No, I'm not saying it's over. I was saying too many try to appear "tough" above things like heartache. Those that try to appear too strong to show emotional loss are the weakest kinds of fools. Oh, but it gets better! Some people go overboard with public displays of emotions all for attention.

[@tinfoilhatter]

@@jeliarra i didn't say ya were: i said, don't be, but i don't have to-tell-you that, obviously then, do i? now i'm not-so-sure, amigo-igo-igo~~~ just kidding, just kidding, i knew you'd appreciate it, and i believe, someday, maybe someone else will, too~~~~~~~

[@tinfoilhatter]

..but then again, maybe we need to be fools... like that awesome joe jackson song: you've gotta hear it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWXGnoCwbbZ8r68 'fools in love' ''...well are there any-other-kind-of-lovers?...''

[@RICHMOND94114]

In memory of Bob Madsen.

[@garyranieri3856]

'who could love do that to you?' should be 'who could, Love, do that to you?' that way means he's addressing his sister, for whom chris wrote the song after she suffered her first heartbreak, as 'Love'. when you know the story behind the song, it's an even better experience. 'Fool if you think it's over- It's just begun, Love...'

[@Mekratrig]

me not you Disagree; should be “Who could love, AND do that to you”. This song is unique in the way it leaves out words here and there. But effective, made me more curious about the lyrics (and missing words) than I would have been otharwise.

[@tinfoilhatter]

@@Mekratrig you mean, it might mean diff'rent things, here'n'there? yeah, i see that practic'ly all-over-the-place, matter-of-fact, these songs're still talkin', to whoever may-be-listenin', y'hear that too, huh? excellent~~~~

[@alejandrovijil2211]

I read that he wrote this song for his younger sister after her boyfriend left her.

[@cicinodanelia8149]

FOOL (IF YOU THINK IT'S OVER) SONGTEXT Dyin' flame, you're free again Who could love, do that to you All dressed in black, he won't be comin' back Look, save your tears Got years and years The pains of seventeen's Unreal they're only dreams Save your cryin' for the day Fool if you think it's over 'Cause you said goodbye Fool if you think it's over I'll tell you why New born eyes always cry with pain At the first look at the mornin' sun Fool if you think it's over It's just begun Miss Teenage Dream, such a traffic scene He knocked your crown and ran away First wound of pride, and how you cried and cried But save your tears, got years and years Fool if you think it's over 'Cause you said goodbye Fool if you think it's over I'll tell you why... (Fool if you think it's over) (Fool if you think it's over) I'll buy you first good wine We'll have a real good time Save your cryin' for the day That may not come But anyone who had to pay Would laugh at you and say Fool if you think it's over 'Cause you said goodbye Fool if you think it's over I'll tell you why New born eyes always cry with pain At the first look at the mornin' sun Fool if you think it's over It's just begun I'll buy you first good wine (Fool if you think it's over) Ooh, we'll have a real good time Save your cryin' for the day (Fool if you think it's over) New born eyes always cry with pain At the first look at the mornin' sun Fool if you think it's over It's just begun - uuuun

[@amandaclutterbuck3732]

Thank you so much for setting out the lyrics

[@TheRunnerman88]

ditto!

[@puppylove9731]

💙

[@nickolasmcandry8149]

1985 was it

[@kceleste6846]

ITS JUST BEGUN😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😱😱😱😱😱😱😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Janeisclassy]

nice...

[@theresatramondo2990]

Fool if you think it's over...

[@cesarmendoza9622]

Beautiful...just the words are showing little bit out of time

[@kceleste6846]

LIFE ANTHEM SO ....sexy tragedy 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🙆🙆🙆🙆🙆🙆🙆😂😂😂😂🐼 NEWBORN

[@paulharvey6216]

Chris Looks like Cory Feldmon!

[@محمدالعجمي-ق1ز]

BGT ?

[@rogelidmass4143]

Llllllll

[@kceleste6846]

WHO BE WRITING THIS STUFF😐😐😐😐