{"id":298,"date":"2007-01-27T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=298"},"modified":"2015-10-29T22:25:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T05:25:11","slug":"two-fools-for-the-price-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2007\/01\/27\/two-fools-for-the-price-of-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Two fools for the price of one…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Two<\/p>\n

F<\/span>ool.<\/p>\n

Terminator menu system-like, I see a short list of possible angles and ledes…<\/p>\n

1) Since the beginning of time, the fool has symbolized man’s ambivalence about the relationship between knowledge, wisdom, and grace…<\/p>\n

2) The idiot. The savant. Are they not two sides of the same illusory coin of enlightenment…?<\/p>\n

3) In the medieval courts, who better than the sovereign’s own chosen fool to plumb the inner machinations of that court or even to orchestrate those intrigues…<\/p>\n

I dunno.<\/p>\n

Here are two songs that both have the word fool <\/span>in the title.<\/p>\n

The first is something of an oldie, going back to the early 80s but here rearranged somewhat, different chords, a slightly darker feel.<\/p>\n

The second is, even by the rough standards of AYoS, pretty sloppy. Intentionally sloppy — but that’s like intentionally ugly in a painting: you have to be an artist to make it work. Here, we just have sloppiness. Still, there’s a cheery, who gives a good goshdarn exuberance to it that matches the relatively optimistic lyrics.<\/p>\n

Relatively optimistic, that is, for this<\/span> writer. I still manage to get in a line about falling down the well of one’s own soul, bottomless, hell, yadda yadda.<\/span> So, anyhow…<\/p>\n

4) None of the above.<\/p>\n

No Fool<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Internet Archive page for this recording<\/a>
\nprevious versions<\/span>
\n9 November 2005<\/a>
\n19 February 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

No Fool<\/span><\/p>\n

Sitting all alone
\nby my telephone
\nWaited all day
\nbut that’s okay
\nI could wait all night
\nand that would be all right
\nfor a woman like you
\nI would wait all my life<\/p>\n

Sometimes I pull myself together
\nand I go downtown
\nI’m all dressed up
\nand I wander around
\nand I feel like a fool
\nI can’t stop thinking of you
\nWhen you’re all alone
\nthis city’s so cruel<\/p>\n

I walk along the river
\nuntil the stars come out
\nI sit by myself alone in the dark
\nand I wonder
\nOh yes I wonder
\nI’m just like a child
\nbut I am no fool
\nI know it’s over
\n
\n(C)1980, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n

I Should Stop Being Such a Fool<\/span><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/IShouldStopBeingSuchAFool_TKMajor_AYoS_20070124\/AYoSSuchAFool.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Internet Archive page for this recording<\/a>
\nprevious AYoS version<\/span><\/span>
\nFriday, October 13, 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

I Should Stop Being Such a Fool<\/span><\/p>\n

I told my self
\nLife has no meaning
\nI told myself
\nI should stop dreaming
\nI told myself
\nI should stop being such a fool<\/p>\n

I told myself
\nlove’s just a lie
\nI told myself
\nI should get wise
\nI told myself
\nbeing kind is just being cruel<\/p>\n

Lookin in my heart<\/span>
\nwas like lookin’ in a well<\/span>
\nand if there was a bottom<\/span>
\nyou couldn’t really tell<\/span>
\nas dark as midnight<\/span>
\nall the way down to hell<\/span>
\none day I looked in<\/span>
\nand then I just fell<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I looked in my soul
\nand I saw that it was empty
\nand I said to myself
\njust like the rest of them
\nand i said out loud
\nfrom here on
\nit’s all ’bout number one<\/p>\n

But I added that up
\nand I factored in forever
\nI subtracted my dreams then
\ndivided that by never
\nWhen I saw the bottom line
\nI sat down — I knew that
\nI was done<\/p>\n

Lookin in my heart…<\/span><\/p>\n

Back then I told my self
\nLife has no meaning
\nAnd I told myself
\nI should stop dreaming
\nThen I told myself
\nI should stop being such a fool<\/p>\n

But then I thought to myself
\nwhat’s it all for?
\nand I thought to myself
\nmust be something more
\nand I realized all at once
\nthere’s more than one kind of fool<\/p>\n

(C) 2006, TK Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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