It seems I've imagined him all of my life
As the wisest of all of mankind,
But if God's only wisdom is foolish to men,
He must have seemed out of his mind
For even his family said he was mad
And the priests set the demons to blame
But God in the form of this angry young man
Could not have seemed perfectly sane
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise,
He played the fool and he opened our eyes.
When we in our weakness believed we were strong,
He became helpless to show we were wrong.
So we follow God's own fool
Where only the foolish can tell,
Believe the unbelievable,
Come be a fool as well.
So come lose your life for a carpenter's son,
For a madman who died for a dream
And you'll have the faith his first followers had
And you'll feel the weight of the beam
So surrender the hunger to say you must know
And the courage to say I believe,
For the power of paradox opens your eyes
And blinds those who say they can see.
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise,
He played the fool and he opened our eyes.
When we in our weakness believed we were strong,
He became helpless to show we were wrong.
So we follow God's own fool
Where only the foolish can tell,
Believe the unbelievable,
Come be a fool as well. x2