Ordinary Fool
(Words and music by Paul Williams)

Only a fool...
Like fools before me, 
I always think with my heart.
Only a fool...
That same old story.
Seems I was born for the part.

It's a lesson to be learned, 
and a page I should have turned.
I shouldn't cry, but I do, 
Like an ordinary fool
when his ordinary dreams fall through.

How many times 
have I mistaken 
good looks and laughs for bad news?
And how many times 
have I mistaken 
good looks and laughs for the blues?

When a road I've walked before
ends alone at my front door,
I shouldn't cry, but I do, 
like an ordinary fool,
when his ordinary dreams fall through.

When a road I've walked before
ends alone at my front door, 
I shouldn't cry, but I do, 
like an ordinary fool, 
when his ordinary dreams fall through.