A Fool’s Paradise – Lyrics
Tell me everything’s gonna be alright
I know you cannot stay tonight
I know many of your reasons are because of me
and I feel ashamed it took me so long to see
But I wish you didn’t feel that way
I can’t keep on running away from home
I’ve been hiding, hiding, in your arms for too long
You already told me so many times
But I didn’t listen, I was deaf and blind
Often I’m too proud to ask for the help I need
Too stubborn to find out what’s wrong with me
The truth hurts the most when it reveals
that I was wrong, wrong, wrong for so long
But I wish you didn’t feel that way
I can’t keep on running away from home
I’ve been hiding, hiding, in your arms for too long
You already told me so many times
But I didn’t listen, I was deaf and blind
lyrics: J. Timmer | music: S.R. van den Berg, D. Warmerdam
Why does it seem so easy to leave someone behind?
And I know it ain’t that obvious but still
it feels like you expelled me from your heart and mind
I don’t wanna make things too personal
so i won’t be calling out your names
There is no fun in winning it all if the
struggle wouldn’t be part of the game
Don’t hesitate, jump for the fall
Always too late to catch them all
There is no space for a memory lane
We gotta build bridges, find the ones who remain
Do you got my back? Who am I to you?
I got no heels and no pride
I’m a fool
Do you got my back? Who am I to you?
I got no heels and no pride
I’m a fool, living in a fool’s paradise
Don’t try and talk me out of it, it doesn’t matter what they say
I got my own opinions, I got my own way
Don’t hesitate, jump for the fall
Always too late to catch them all
There is no space for a memory lane
We gotta build bridges, find the ones who remain
Do you got my back? Who am I to you?
I got no heels and no pride
I’m a fool
Do you got my back? Who am I to you?
I got no heels and no pride
I’m a fool, living in a fool’s paradise
Do you got my back? Who am I to you?
I got no heels and no pride
I’m a fool
Do you got my back? Who am I to you?
I got no heels and no pride
I’m a fool, living in a fool’s paradise
lyrics: J. Timmer | music: D. Warmerdam
See me dancing in the water
I ain’t waiting for another turn
You cried me a river about another
Well, I’m not gonna teach you if you never learn
There is no smooth education
No one ever told you life is fun
You’re travelling from nation to nation
but vou cannot finish any of the things that you’ve begun
So get down, get down to the river
Erase your footsteps and never return
Get down, get down to the river
Well, I’m not gonna teach you if you never learn
We’re just jumping around each other
So why are you in denial, baby?
Your hand holds a queen and a king
So let me tell you one thing: a quitter never wins
So get down, get down to the river
Erase your footsteps and never return
Get down, get down to the river
Well, I’m not gonna teach you if you never learn
Do you even realise you cannot spell out my name
I’m done riding, it’s time to settle down
Oh and you are not a hound dog that is easy to tame
So I’d rather put you on board so you can sail your way south!
So get down, get down to the river
Erase your footsteps and never return, boy
Get down get down to the river
Well, I’m not gonna teach you if you never learn
So get down to the river
Erase your footsteps and never return, no
Get down, get down to the river
Well, I’m not gonna teach you if you never learn
lyrics: J. Timmer | music: D. Warmerdam, S.R. van den Berg, J. Timmer, R. Van de Voort, L. Hoogland
Blurred faces behind the windows
The summer rain seems to leave me here alone
Am I wrong about my opinions?
Everybody seems to strengthen their backbone
I didn’t wanna be on that rolling sea
The waves would just throttle my letter in a bottle
All the promises I vowed but it’s so hard
The tides are trying to change
but they just seem to derange
And we cannot fight the break of day
Take me to a place where I can be strong
Oh baby I long to belong
This world is a maze, I can not find my way
Where are the stars to guide me home?
Blurred face behind the windows
These dark days are only lit up by our telephone
We all know we can not be the winner
The game is played by all these rich men sitting on their thrones
I didn’t wanna be on that rolling sea
The waves would just throttle my letter in a bottle
All the promises I vowed but it’s so hard
The tides are trying to change
but they just seem to derange
And we cannot fight the break of day
Take me to a place where I can be strong
Oh baby I long to belong
This world is a maze, I can not find my way
Where are the stars to guide me home?
Baby I’m waiting, I’m waiting for you
Baby I’m waiting, I’m waiting for you
Baby I’m waiting, I’m waiting for you
to take me to a place, where I can be strong
Oh baby I long to belong
This world is a maze, I can not find my way
Where are the stars to guide me home?
lyrics: J. Timmer | music: D. Warmerdam
“Please just watch my bag baby
I’m just going, I’m just going outside
Please just watch my bag baby
I’m just going, I’m just going outside
I’m gonna be smoking one cigarette
underneath the neon light.”
“Hey baby, yeah you right there, could
you please just keep an eye on my coat
I promise you I won’t be away for too long
Please just keep an eye on my coat right here
I promise you I won’t be away for too long.”
That is what she told me when she
made her way out of Hambone’s
She stepped into the darkness
Stealing the love and light from my eyes
I didn’t even notice that she had left me
Until the bartender said: “Alright ev’rybody, goodnight!”
“Please just watch my bag baby.” I now
know she was only telling lies!
“Please just watch my bag baby
I’m just going, I’m just going outside
Please just watch my bag baby
I’m just going outside
I’m gonna be smoking one cigarette
underneath the neon light
Please just watch my bag, baby”
I now know she was only telling, telling lies!
lyrics: J. Timmer | music: D. Warmerdam, S.R. van den Berg
I’m driving south to face my fears
I’m driving south to face my tears
Driving south to climb the waves
of the darkest, the darkest years
There’s a fire in the morning
Let me see if I can sit it through
There’s a fire and it’s burning
What good can a heartache do?
But I can stand a little fire
Oh, I can stand a little burn
Yes, I can stand a little heatwave
Now it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn
There is a message in every story
There’s a teardrop in every splash of rain
There’s no reason to feel so sorry
if it’s the past you cannot change
But I can stand a little fire
Oh, I can stand a little burn
Yeah I can stand a little heatwave
Now it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn
Oh, but the future is a blank page
waiting for you to confess
and the whole world could be your stage
if you’re ready to do your best
and I can stand a little fire
I can stand a little burn
Now it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn
Oh I can stand a little fire
Oh I can stand a little burn
Oh I can stand a little heatwave
Now it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn
Yeah it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn
Oh it’s my turn, it’s my turn to learn
lyrics: J. Timmer | music: D. Warmerdam
The drawings on the wall are screaming my pain
Im so done with driving people sane
It’s my free choice to be fed up and sad
Your world ain’t my world so don’t tell me you understand
And just for one second I got jealous of the sky
where birds can just float, they are always free to fly
But I can climb mountains and sail the ocean blue
The grass won’t be greener so you just stick to being you
I don’t complain even though it all falls apart
I won’t complain about this broken heart
I don’t complain if you ask me are you alright
No I won’t complain, oh no
My tears are the past that is bleeding
My mind is the palace I’m dreaming
I’ll be drying my wings in the wind
because I cannot fly with this burden, no
I can still feel your anger on my skin
but it means nothing compared to the world’s hurting
So I don’t complain even though it all falls apart
I won’t complain about this broken heart
I don’t complain if you ask me are you alright
No I won’t complain, but don’t expect me to smile
My tears are the past that is bleeding
My mind is the palace I’m dreaming
No, no, no, I won’t complain,
No no no, I don’t complain, I won’t complain, no
lyrics: J. Timmer | music: S.R. van den Berg, D. Warmerdam
Give me another reason why I shouldn’t run away tonight
Ah give me another reason why I shouldn’t run away this time
There ain’t nothing left to sooth me,
there ain’t nothing left but crying
And I wish I could go running a long long way from home
I wish I could go running a long long way from home
This paradise ain’t what it should be
The apple is just a lie I’ve been told
Oh this world ain’t what it should be, it
has lost its ways throughout the years
Oh this world ain’t what it should be, it
has lost its ways throughout the years
And there ain’t nothing left to sooth me,
there ain’t nothing left but tears
So I wish I could go running a long long way from home
Oh I wish I could go running a long long way from home
Yeah this paradise ain’t what it should be
The apple is just a lie I’ve been told
Sonny Ray!
One more! Fucking lekker jongens! One more!
I wish I could go running a long long way from home
Yeah I wish I could go running a long long way from home
Yeah this paradise ain’t what it should be
The apple is just a lie I’ve been told
Oh, and I wish I could go running a long long way from home
Hey, I wish I could go running a long long way from home
This paradise ain’t what it should be
The apple is just a lie I’ve been told
