DESCRIPTION:
Richard's comments on "Ordinary Fool" -- "Karen and I recorded it in 1976 while working on our "A Kind Of Hush" album. Originally it was recorded the way we did virtually all our recordings, bass, piano, drums and a "work lead" so, as you know, the drummer and bassist could hear the melody while reading their charts. Karen was not that taken with the song and it did not make the album."

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.