You’ll never know dear/
How much I love you.

“Lovin’s For Fools” by Sarah Siskind has this unique quality that I have only experienced with a few other songs. I get the feeling that “this song has to be a cover because I swear I’ve heard it before”. It’s a type of Déjà vu. Paul McCartney described that he had difficulty completing Yesterday because he was certain that that melody must already have been written already. I get that feeling with Siskind’s Lovin’s For Fools—“I must have heard this before”. A couple other songs I experienced this with is Sea of Love and The Pretender’s I’ll Stand By You. It speaks to a song’s timeless quality.

“Lovin’s For Fools” tells the story of a woman who is experiencing her home for the first time without her ex in it. They built the house together, but he left her for someone else. All her memories of this place contain memories of him. This is a fresh start for her, and it is bittersweet. She recognizes that things were not working between them, however, once there was a strong love. Who would put themselves in the position to feel this pain? Only fools.

Siskind’s voice trembles slightly as she sings. Her voice very clearly betrays her feelings of hurt and confusion. She could have very easily belted out this song and made it sound more ‘pretty’: that would have been the wrong choice. This song is a country song: it has an acoustic guitar with a piano for background with a perfect amount of slide guitar. (Most songs that use slide guitar use way too much). I believe it would sound equally good with just an acoustic guitar and I would love to see her solo acoustic.

Lovin’s For Fools Lyrics

Crazy how I feel
Living without you
Inside this house that we built.
Seems like the window’s
Finally open
Letting the memories out.

Go on and love her,
Love her forever
I will not tell her
You told me too
You’ll never know dear
How much I love you.
Lovin’s for fools
Lovin’s for fools

Maybe you’ll find me
walking in the garden
Looking for something pure
Roots that are growing
deeper and deeper,
maybe you’ll pull them too.

Well go on and leave here
Leave here forever
No one can make you
Do what you do
You’ll never know dear
How much I love you
Lovin’s for fools
Lovin’s for fools

Written by Sarah Siskind