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The Fool Lyrics
Artist: Richard Dawson
The Fool Lyrics
The Fool by Richard Dawson
I play the role of a fool
The townsfolk’s fulcrum of ridicule
Off to appear through prisming beer
To the newly-arrived here
Not as I am, but how they prefer
I saw Ruth atop a dun Clydesdale
In a pilgrim’s caravan
Queueing at the toll-house now and
Then revealed by a sheet of lightning
My heart stolen in a flash
Morning up, I went to their camp
A cross-eye juvenile ushered me to the orchard
Where she lay sketching the spires of the college
And bade me welcome as if we were old friends
[Verse 2]
Ruth and I were inseperable
Over the course of that haunted spring
Our midnight trysts unquietly twisted
The blade of our bodies in a wound made
Several hundred lifespans ago
At the end of a skull-lined avenue
In the almshouse catacombs
She looked me in the eyes and
Sadly said: “My darling
I don’t want this to happen anymore”
Love is old, older than the sun
A dreadful magic, more powerful than evil
Love, love is old, older than the sun
The impossible engine of a hidden world
[Chorus]
Down at the wharf, I watched them load
Their frightened animals aboard a waiting flyboat
I hurled my bottle of wine into it’s foamy wake
And made a promise I could never not break
[Outro]
Love is old, older than the sun
A dreadful magic, more powerful than evil
Love, love is old, older than the sun
Older than the sun, oh-ah-ah-ah
Love, love is old, ah-ah-ah-ah
Love, love is old, ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
Love is old, love is old
Love, love is older, older than the sun
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