Fool's Errand

by Fables

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lyrics

When there was nothing to find
You called off the search to your lost paradise
Was it all make-believe,
A card up the sleeve?
Was the Promised Land just a lie?

You can wander through the desert
In search of an island
And you’ll swear that out there
You’d spotted something along the horizon
Now where did it go?
Where did it go?
Where will you go to now?

All the plans that you made
Are coalmine canaries
in your mind’s wire cage
You can’t play the part
Of both the prisoner and guard
So don’t throw your key away

Caught in the quicksand of a dream:
In flight to the sun on wax eagle wings
A shooting-star fate
A prayer that you’ll wake
On a free-fall towards the sea

You’re a skipping stone
On the face of the water
You only coast so far
Before you sink to the bottom
So where did you rest?
Where did you rest?
How can you rest right now?

Now you’re marching in place
An infinite loop on a Penrose staircase
To the beat of a drum
For a destination
That will never show its face
But you keep going anyway

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released December 20, 2014
Ben Sheidlower & Jake Webb

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