Verso 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
Verso 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
Verso 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
F# C#
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
Verso 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