Fool's Gold - The Rainmakers

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

© 1994 Bob Walkenhorst Music BMI