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Artist: Grant Lee Phillips
Canonical path: /grant-lee-phillips/fools-gold
Related lyric paths: 6
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Fools Gold
Read Fools Gold lyrics by Grant Lee Phillips on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Fools Gold
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Praying for what never comes
Digging for some glowing thing
Losing yourself in the rush
Driving you slowly insane
Won’t be the last one to fall
Won’t be the last one to find
It’s only fools gold
Fools gold
Oh it may shine like the sun
But it’s just fools gold
Someone to walk by your side
Someone who’s there when you’re old
Someone to live with your own
This is the real mother load
Won’t be the last one to fall
Won’t be the last one to find
The rest is just fools gold
Fools gold
Oh it may shine like the sun
But it’s just fools gold
Some men will steal to get rich
Another will kill to keep his
Maybe it’s just yellow rocks
Maybe that’s all that there is
All of it’s fools gold
Mm mm fools gold
Oh it may shine like the sun
But it’s just fools gold
Oh it may shine like the sun
But it’s just fools gold
Fools gold
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Grant Lee Phillips performs "Fools Gold", and this lyric page sits inside the Grant Lee Phillips catalog on LyroVerse.
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