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
