Lyric Fool s Gold

I heard you telling your friends
aw, he s harmless enough
there s almost nothing
you could ve said
that would have hurt me so much
but how to risk all you got
oh, i forget, you forgot
or you d see that
harmless is one thing
I m most certainly not

it s all fool s gold, my dear
it s all fool s gold, my dear
it s hardly ever like you think
it s almost always like you fear
it s all fool s gold, it s all fool s gold

when we were young
we went dancing
to a band at the Rink
they were so far out
of tune and time
and they didn t even blink
they were the best in the world
as far as we were concerned
I heard them two years on
it was amazing
what they d learned
twice as cool, twice as fast
twice as loud, twice as long
they were at least twice as good
and about half as much fun

it s all fool s gold, my dear
it s all fool s gold, my dear
it s not so much what you know
as what you believe to be so
it s all fool s gold, it s all fool s gold

I was in traffic by a man
reading a book while he drives
he couldn t
stay between the lanes
he couldn t
read between the lines
so I ran him off the road
the first chance that I got
see, harmless is one thing
a little knowledge is not

it s all fool s gold, my dear
it s all fool s gold, my dear
oh, sometimes the facts
can make the truth disappear
it s all fool s gold, it s all fool s gold

I think God honored my oath
and He one day struck me blind
because I can t see the forest
for the matchsticks sometimes
oh, if ignorance is bliss
I m the happiest man alive
I do so want to believe
I m so damn dumb sometimes
I imagine politics and love
where neither exist
mistake the handshake
of friendship
for the hate-shaking fist
it s like the Lost Dutchman mine
it s a fictional claim
but we ve no other choice
than to keep mining that vein

it s all fool s gold, my dear
it s all fool s gold, my dear
it s hardly ever what you think
it s almost always like you fear
it s all fool s gold, it s all fool s gold

Lyrics by Bob Walkenhorst
© 1994 Bob Walkenhorst Music BMI