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The Eyes in His Head See the World Spinning Round

The Beatles
The Fool on the Hill

If I don’t listen to the talk of the town
Then maybe I can fool myself

Go West
King Of Wishful Thinking

You might think I’m foolish
Or maybe it’s untrue

The Cars
You Might Think

When illusion spin her net
I’m never where I want to be
And liberty she pirouette
When I think that I am free

Peter Gabriel
Solsbury Hill

You’re just waiting at the
bottom of the hill
You don’t mean nothing
if you don’t do nothing
You’re just standing still

Ringo Starr
Standing Still

Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don’t you know you might find
A better place to play

Oasis
Don’t Look Back in Anger

“The lyrics describe the titular ‘fool’,
a solitary figure who is not understood by others,
but is actually wise.” 1

Day after day, alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin
Is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he’s just a fool
And he never gives an answer

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round

Well on the way, head in a cloud
The man of a thousand voices
Talking perfectly loud
But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make
And he never seems to notice

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round

And nobody seems to like him
They can tell what he wants to do
And he never shows his feelings

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round

Ohh oh-oh-oh-oh ohh-oh-oh
Round and round and round and round and round
He never listens to them
He knows that they’re the fool
They don’t like him

The fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning round
Ohhhh
Round and round and round and round
Ohhhh

It’s easier to fool people
than to convince them
that they have been fooled

Unknown

References:

  1. Wikipedia contributors. (2023, July 9). The Fool on the Hill. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:38, August 1, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Fool_on_the_Hill&oldid=1164504903
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The Fool On The Hill (Remastered 2009)

Crazy on a ship of fools
Crazy on a ship of fools
Turn this boat around

back to my loving ground

Robert Plant
Ship of Fools

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