The Educated Fool

Album: Virtual XI (1998)
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  • I'm an educated fool
    So I don't know what it is I'm supposed to do
    About this awkward situation
    That's been forced down right upon me
    As I'm walking down into
    On my own into the valley of life
    Got a lifetime of experience
    Yeah, I've got so much to give

    Open the page at chapter one
    Could this just be that life's just begun?
    Forever within your darker thoughts
    Reflecting on everything you've been taught

    Never felt this way before
    Seems that somebody's just opened the door
    To the book of life, or is it death?
    Is there ever any way out?
    Someone's looking down on me
    To the very inner core of my soul
    They won't tell me what they see
    But I really want to know

    I want to live my life on my own
    I want to lift the unturned stone
    I want to walk right into the fire
    I want to live out all my desires
    I want to go and see the fire burn
    I want to see and feel my world turn
    I want to know what more there's to learn
    I want to pass the point of no return

    Do you really want to be
    Just another one statistic?
    Or feel that you really should aspire
    That you really do deserve more
    Do you ever really feel
    That you have so much potential inside?
    What you really have to give
    Could be realized much more

    I want to live my life on my own
    I want to lift the unturned stone
    I want to walk right into the fire
    I want to live out all my desires
    I want to go and see the fire burn
    I want to see and feel my world turn
    I want to know what more there's to learn
    I want to pass the point of no return

    Time will flow
    And I will follow
    Time will go
    But I will follow
    Time will flow
    And I will follow
    Time will go
    But I will follow

    I want to feel what life's like respond
    I want to meet my father beyond
    I want to walk right into the light
    I want to feel no fear but delight
    I want to live my life on my own
    I want to lift the unturned stone
    I want to walk right into the fire
    I want to live out all my desires

    Time will flow
    And I will follow
    Time will go
    But I will follow
    Time will flow
    And I will follow
    Time will go
    But I will follow

    Time will flow
    And I will follow
    Time will go
    But I will follow

    The educated fool Writer/s: Stephen Percy Harris
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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