Fool's Gold lyrics

The woman combed her yellow hair

Fixed her dress and stepped into the street

Behind her in the hotel room

Maria turns the bed to change the sheets

Suddenly a flash of light

Leaps out from in-between the linen folds

Maria slides her hand along the sheet still warm

And finds the fool’s gold

She steps up to the window

Just in time to watch the woman drive away

Her cell phone rings, her boyfriend calls

To say the factory had no work today

She slips the ring upon her finger

Thinks: “My hands are starting to look old”

But still there’s something beautiful about the hand

That wears the fool’s gold

Fool’s gold, fool’s gold

The hand that wears the fool’s gold

A woman sits with yellow hair

Her husband asks her, “Where’s your wedding ring?”

“I must have lost it washing up

You know you can’t trust me with anything”

Across town on a liar’s ring

Maria swears to honour and to hold

Bound to him by poverty and promises

And fool’s gold

Fool’s gold, fool’s gold

Promises and fool’s gold

Fool's gold, fool's gold

Promises and fool's gold