Fool's Gold

from Demos by Elaine Greer

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run run run so far away from the fox in the lion's jaws
an honest heart won't win to pride these days
everyone will sit around and laugh at nature's unruly laws
as if they've got a golden book that reads,
get on your high horse or get on your knees

i think there's something going wrong over there,
i think you might have lost sight of why you ever cared
is it a person or a thing, an idea or a meaning?
holding on to paper scraps of a real thing

is it a person or a thing, an idea or a meaning?
holding on to paper scraps of a real thing
you've got your fool's gold in your hands,
you've got your pride and you've got your plans

oh, they take me for a fool,
thinking i would give in to their side too
oh, they take me for a fool,
thinking pride would make me blind

i think there's something going wrong over there
i think you might have lost sight of why you ever cared
is it a person or a thing, an idea or a meaning?
holding on to paper scraps of a real thing

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from Demos, released January 1, 2012

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"Cool, smart, resilient, inventive pop from Austin, Texas..."

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