Fools Gold

	  		
Verse 1:
F#          B 
I heard you telling your friends 
         F#         C# 
Aw, he's harmless enough 
               B 
There's almost nothing 

You could've said 
                F#         C# 
That would have hurt me so much 
           B 
But how to risk all you got 
      F#          C# 
Oh, i forget, you forgot 

Or you'd see that 
B 
Harmless is one thing 
         F#        C# 
I'm most certainly not 

 
         B               F# 
It's all fool's gold, my dear 
         G#m7            F# 
It's all fool's gold, my dear 
            B 
It's hardly ever like you think 
            F#              C# 
It's almost always like you fear 
         B           F#              G#m7        B C# 
It's all fool's gold,       it's all fool's gold 


Verse 2:
 
             B 
When we were young 

We went dancing 
     F#          C# 
To a band at the Rink 
             B 
They were so far out 

Of tune and time 
         F#          C# 
And they didn't even blink 
              B 
They were the best in the world 
          F#         C# 
As far as we were concerned 
             B 
I heard them two years on 
       F# 
It was amazing 
            C# 
What they'd learned 
         B 
Twice as cool, twice as fast 
         F#             C# 
Twice as loud, twice as long 
             B 
They were at least twice as good 
          F#           C# 
And about half as much fun 

 
         B               F# 
It's all fool's gold, my dear 
         G#m7            F# 
It's all fool's gold, my dear 
            B 
It's not so much what you know 
            F#            C# 
As what you believe to be so 
         B           F#              G#m7        B C# 
It's all fool's gold,       it's all fool's gold 


Verse 3:
 
         B 
I was in traffic by a man 
          F#            C# 
Reading a book while he drives 

He couldn't 
B 
Stay between the lanes 

He couldn't 
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Read between the lines 
     B 
So I ran him off the road 
          F#            C# 
The first chance that I got 
     B 
See, harmless is one thing 
         F#           C# 
A little knowledge is not 

 
         B               F# 
It's all fool's gold, my dear 
         G#m7            F# 
It's all fool's gold, my dear 
    B 
Oh, sometimes the facts 
             F#    C# 
Can make the truth disappear 
         B           F#              G#m7        B C# 
It's all fool's gold,       it's all fool's gold 


Verse 4:
 
            B 
I think God honored my oath 
           F#            C# 
And He one day struck me blind 
          B 
Because I can't see the forest 
        F#          C# 
For the matchsticks sometimes 
       B 
Oh, if ignorance is bliss 
        F#           C# 
I'm the happiest man alive 
        B 
I do so want to believe 
            F#   C# 
I'm so damn dumb sometimes 
          B 
I imagine politics and love 
      F#      C# 
Where neither exist 
            B 
Mistake the handshake 

Of friendship 
        F#           C# 
For the hate-shaking fist 
              B 
It's like the Lost Dutchman mine 
       F#        C# 
It's a fictional claim 
          B 
But we've no other choice 
             F#          C# 
Than to keep mining that vein 


         B               F# 
It's all fool's gold, my dear 
         G#m7            F# 
It's all fool's gold, my dear 
            B 
It's hardly ever what you think 
            F#              C# 
It's almost always like you fear 
         B           F#              G#m7        B C# 
It's all fool's gold,       it's all fool's gold