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Fool’s Gold

Raul Seixas

I should now be feeling happy

Since I have a fine new job

A wife an’ family

I’m the model man who made it

Every month a thousand bucks

I should thank the Lord I have it

And my success as an artist

Should be proud I’ve got a Chevy

I’m the kind of guy that lucks

So, I should now be glad as glad

With my brand new home is the best quarter

After starving for two years

In this whore of whores of towns

Should be proud of being socially

Respected and even feared

But I think this kind of success

Is for circuses and for clowns

You know, I should be vain and proud

To have won my place in life

But I must vow I´m dazed

And I just don´t know where I am at

Because it was so easy picking

So I ask myself, “And now”?

I have so many worlds to conquer

And I know I can not be even satisfied with that

I should be happy God has granted me

Sundays that I wanted

With my family to play the father

To play the husband and display

But a monumental bore

You will find I am and more

Don’t you feel I’m happy and easy

At the end of every day

Stand against a looking glass

And see yourself, what an ass

God and devil took the mass

On ten percent use of your brain

You are a doctor of philosophy

Priest or copper, what a topper

Don’t you wish you could grow young

And start it all again?