3 newly recorded songs dedicated to The Fool…
I told my self
Life has no meaning
I told myself
I should stop dreaming
I told myself
I should stop being such a fool
Three songs about three different kinds of fools… [and let me hasten to point out that while All Fool’s day caught me off guard today with the startling news that Apple was leaving the home computer market, I must still have been subconsciously thinking ahead: yesterday’s song — which went up quite late last night — and is kind of interesting if I do say so myself — had the line: “…in the Idiot’s Guide to Love I must be listed in the back under ‘Fool’…”
Kingdom of Fools
previous versions
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
lyrics
Kingdom of Fools
Ain’t no such thing
as too high to fall
aint no place so low
you can’t get there
if you crawl
Ain’t no bro’
so close you can’t play him down
’cause in the kingdom of Fools
only one can wear the crown
Ain’t no truth so pure
you can’t turn it to a lie
ain’t no love so deep
you can’t drain it ’til it’s dry
ain’t no flower so pretty
you can’t crush it to the ground
in the Kingdom of Fools
only one can wear the crown
Ain’t no lie
that can ever make you see the truth
and your whole life ’til now
is just so much living proof
Ain’t no one but you
can keep you from where you’re bound
‘Cause in the Kingdom of Fools
Only one can wear the crown
(C)2007, TK Major
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No Fool
previous versions
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Friday, February 24, 2006
Friday, January 26, 2007
lyrics
No Fool
Sitting all alone
by my telephone
Waited all day
but that’s okay
I could wait all night
and that would be all right
for a woman like you
I would wait all my life
Sometimes I pull myself together
and I go downtown
I’m all dressed up
and I wander around
and I feel like a fool
I can’t stop thinking of you
When you’re all alone
this city’s so cruel
I walk along the river
until the stars come out
I sit by myself alone in the dark
and I wonder
Oh yes I wonder
I’m just like a child
but I am no fool
I know it’s over
(C)1980, TK Major
(C)2007, TK Major
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I Should Stop Being Such a Fool
previous versions
Friday, October 13, 2006
Friday, January 26, 2007
lyrics
I Should Stop Being Such a Fool
I told my self
Life has no meaning
I told myself
I should stop dreaming
I told myself
I should stop being such a fool
I told myself
love’s just a lie
I told myself
I should get wise
I told myself
being kind is just being cruel
Lookin in my heart
was like lookin’ in a well
and if there was a bottom
you couldn’t really tell
as dark as midnight
all the way down to hell
one day I looked in
and then I just fell
Then I looked in my soul
and I saw that it was empty
and I said to myself
just like the rest of them
and i said out loud
from here on
it’s all ’bout number one
But I added that up
and I factored in forever
I subtracted my dreams then
divided that by never
When I saw the bottom line
I sat down — I knew that
I was done
Lookin in my heart…
Back then I told my self
Life has no meaning
And I told myself
I should stop dreaming
Then I told myself
I should stop being such a fool
But then I thought to myself
what’s it all for?
and I thought to myself
must be something more
and I realized all at once
there’s more than one kind of fool
(C) 2006, TK Major
(C)2007, TK Major
