i've just traveled through bumpy roads
in hopes that i'll be free 
but i've trampled on the wrong path
all along i've been singing
towards fools' haven
it is a place of stupidity and idiocy
complete chaos and anarchy
people don't make sense
and their eyes flick into their sockets
like moths flicker in the candlelight
i've just made myself a fool
i claim to be one too
because i've acted oblivious
too blind to see the truth
lived in a lie
and now i have to pay for my
unconscious actions
and live in fools' paradise


© copyright, 1998

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