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Fools’ Gold
Words & Music: Chris Currie (2005)

Hey, man, where you going?
What you thinking? Why you running away?
Don’t you think that we’ve got a good thing going?
Don’t you want to see where we can take it?
Or have you gone and lost your faith?
Don’t you believe anymore that we can make it?
Don’t you want to shoot for the stars for heaven’s sake?

Listen here, don’t you know what you’d be leaving?
I believe I could find a reason to keep you
On the road with your name in the neon lights
Living town to town, living night to night
We could do it all on our own time
And if we take a closer look, we’ll find
We’re sitting on a goldmine
We may never get a chance like this
In another thousand lifetimes

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I said, “I know the wide road looks bright.
And all the lights are green and so it seems
That everything is just right.
But that highway’s just too fast –
I think I’ll take the back roads
And I won’t live out my days
Searching for fools’ gold.”

How can you look at us and say
You’d rather give it up than keep it
Never wake the giant – just let him sleep
Never face the music – just run away?
Whatever happened to your faith?
Is it lost and gone forever
Or did you put it in a new place?
I said, “I never put it anywhere.
The wind just swept it up one day.”

Chorus

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from The Birdhouse Presents, vol​.​1: The Housewarming, released July 26, 2010
Words & Music: Chris Currie (2005)

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