Kiki Dee

Released: June 2, 2008

Producer: Elton John

I let the pain just walk on in
And I pulled up the nearest chair
No need to say 'Hey how you been'
We've been friends to long to care

Baby you're the cause of my sleepless nights
But it's not that I'm about to complain
You get used to it, sing your blues to it
Once a fool always a fool

There's no way to change to be rearranged anymore
Once a fool always a fool
When you ring the bell I can tell who you're ready for
I always find you with an alibi

When I know you're the guilty one
I never ask for a reason why
You come home with the rising sun
What the use of making it harder boy

When it's hard enough already for me
Be it right or wrong I shall play along
Once a fool always a fool

There's no way to change to be rearranged anymore
Once a fool always a fool
When you ring the bell I can tell who you're ready for
Once a fool always a fool
There's no way to change to be rearranged anymore
Once a fool always a fool
When you ring the bell I can tell who you're ready for

Pauline Matthews better known as Kiki Dee, is an English singer.

She kicked around Britain as a white soul singer for the better part of the late ‘60s and early '70s – even becoming the first British Caucasian signed to Motown – before hooking up with Elton John, who signed her to his Rocket Records label and produced her first notable hit, “I’ve Got the Music in Me.”

In 1976, at which time John was the biggest pop star in the world, he wrote and duetted with Dee on the single “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” which promptly topped the charts all over the world. It did not, however, make Dee a long-term star, though she scored a couple of subsequent hits in England and turned to the stage with some success, especially by starring in Blood Brothers in the West End.

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