"Curse of The Fool" by Val Davis

Curse of The Fool

Val Davis

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Interesting piece about appreciating whats in your own backyard and keeping an open mind about everything else.

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Val Davis

Acoustic Rock with a worldy feel

Val Davis is a singer/songwriter who since 2002 has been getting some notice. In 2002 he was a finalist at the SolarFest singer/songwriter competition. In 2003 his music was featured on National Pulic Radio (NPR) and his music is currently getting airplay at several college stations around the US including XPN in Philadelphia. Val and his family returned to Vermont in Dec 2003 where he does web design and internet broadcasting.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Rock Unplugged

Charts

Peak #174

Peak in subgenre #14

Author

Val Davis words and Music

Rights

Val Davis Music 2003

Uploaded

June 19, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.0 MB • 128 kbps • 4:23

Story behind the song

This was recorded in my home studio from 10/2000 - 1/2001 using Cool Edit Pro. I wrote the song about 14 years ago while I was living in a cabin in the woods of the Upper Pennisula of Michigan.

Lyrics

I've heard it said before by those much kinder than I
That what seperates a wiseman from a fool
Is what he sees when he looks into the sky
What he sees when he looks into the sky

One might see a big space
While another might long for the moon
Another might see only unreachable stars
But a fool looks back down at his shoes

And a wise man sees his own backyard
A wise man always lives in the stars
A wise man wants to re-write the book
And it's thrown into the fool's fire
Without even a look

Somewhere close by and yet so far away
Is a place where we came from that we may see again someday
A place of more breadth and more depth than we'll know
And a fool has never seen where a wise man will go

And a wise man sees his own backyard
A wise man always lives in the stars
A wise man wants to re-write the book
And it's thrown into the fool's fire
Without even a look