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The Dreamer and the Fool

from Strange Presence by Xrisville

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The Dreamer and the Fool (3:36)

I began composing this song on an acoustic guitar while visiting my brother at Sonic Playground, the recording studio he owned in Etobicoke, Ont. Seated beside an ancient Wurlitzer keyboard, I started fiddling around with accompanying chords and worked out the verse structure to this song about idealized love (the Dreamer) versus poor assumptions (the Fool) based on bad experiences. I worked out the bridge later at home. I based the title on the Lewis Carroll poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter.”

Instrumentation: guitar strings, nylon-string acoustic guitar, thump bass, drums, percussion, Stratocaster, ‘60s lead organ, tube-double guitar, New Age flute, Crunch-Split guitar.

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The Dreamer and the Fool (Lyrics)

You take me for an answer
You take me for a king
Though I loved you dearly
it didn't mean a thing
'cause you crossed on the hillside
and I crossed in the stream
'cause you are but a dreamer
and I am but a fool
Yes, you are but a dreamer
and I am but a fool

Now, many foreign dancers
and many foreign kings
love little blue ladies
in cheap golden rings
'cause you've looked for the answers
and I've lost many things
'cause you are but a dreamer
and I am but a fool
Yes, you are but a dreamer
and I am but a fool

Now, today I find
you have gone and left me flowers
Though I see with wounded sight
I attend the empty bower
As I run into the light
I ascend the crystal tower
and press to my breast
the hope of a rest
from loneliness and flight

I sleep long in the morning
You sleep deeply at dawn
In the darkness, when you're breathing
to your spirit, I am drawn
We question all the answers
to the chances that are gone
'cause you are but a dreamer
and I am but a fool
Yes, you are but a dreamer
and I am but a fool

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from Strange Presence, released November 28, 2012

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