Foolish Games (feat. Kelly Clarkson) Lyrics
You took your coat off and stood in the rain
You're always crazy like that
I watched from my window
Always felt like I was outside looking in on you
You're always the mysterious one with
Dark eyes and careless hair
You were fashionably sensitive, but too cool to care
You stood in my doorway, with nothing to say
Besides some comment on the weather
[Pre-Chorus: Jewel]
Well, in case you failed to notice
In case you failed to see
This is my heart bleeding before you
This is me down on my knees
[Chorus: Jewel & Kelly Clarkson]
These foolish games are tearing me apart
And your thoughtless words are breaking my heart
You're breaking my heart
[Verse 2: Kelly Clarkson]
You're always brilliant in the morning
Smoking your cigarettes and talking over coffee
Your philosophies on art
Baroque moved you
You loved Mozart and you'd speak of your loved ones
As I clumsily strummed my guitar
Well, excuse me
Guess I've mistaken you for somebody else
Somebody who gave a damn
Somebody more like myself
[Chorus: Jewel & Kelly Clarkson]
These foolish games are tearing me
You're tearing me, you're tearing me apart
And your thoughtless words are breaking my heart
You're breaking my heart
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro: Jewel]
You took your coat off
Stood in the rain
Ooh, you're always crazy like that
About
Jewel released a Greatest Hits album in 2013, and one of the songs featured on the greatest hits album is one of her older songs, “Foolish Games”. Jewel decided to re-record the song as a duet with another artist, and that other artist happened to be Kelly Clarkson.
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I really wanted to sing that song with a great vocalist, and she was my first pick. She’s a hoot in the studio, she’s really a fun hang, really down to earth and she’s kind of a freak of nature. I mean, you go in there, and I was singing this long note and I was holding it as long as I could and as high as I could and I was on my tiptoes doing it and she walked in there and was like, that was great, and then she just did a whole three, you know, steps above it and just sailed through it like it was nothing. She’s a freak of nature.
Via MTV
Yes, both Jewel and Kelly Clarkson performed the song for the first time live on Clarkson’s November 20, 2020 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show. The performance was done virtually, with Clarkson on set during her parts of the song, and Jewel at home:
- 4.Hands
- 5.Down So Long
- 9.Intuition
- 10.Good Day
- 11.Stronger Woman
- 13.Satisfied
- 15.Foolish Games (feat. Kelly Clarkson)
