It Takes a Fool To Remain Sane

Whatever happened to the funky race?

A generation lost in pace

Wasn't life supposed to be more than this?

In this kiss I'll change your bore for my bliss

But let go of my hand and it will slip on the sand

If you don't give me the chance

to break down the walls of attitude

I ask nothing of you

not even your gratitude

And if you think I'm corny

then it will not make me sorry

It's your right to laugh at me

and in turn that's my oppurtunity

to feel brave

Because ridicule is no shame

Oh, it's just a way to eclipse hate

It's just a way to put my back straight

Oh, it's just a way to remain sane

Every morning I would see her getting off the bus

The picture never drops, it's like a multicoloured snapshot

stuck in my brain

It kept me sane for a couple of years

as it drenched my fears

of becoming like the others

who become unhappy mothers

and fathers of unhappy kids

and why is that?

'Cos they've forgotten how to play

Oh, maybe they're afraid to feel ashamed

to seem strange, to seem insane

to gain weight, to seem gay

I tell you this

That it takes a fool to remain sane

Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane

Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane

Oh, in this world all covered up in shame

(Oh, take it to the stage)