Fool to Think

Verse 1

Started out believing I could map the stars

Find the pieces scattered near and far

Built my questions high like a wall of stone

But every answer crumbled, left me more alone

Pre-Chorus

Staring at my shadow, hoping it would speak

Looking for the lines that make me unique

Chorus

It takes a fool to think we can hold the sky

take the lightning, call it mine or yours

Draw a line, call it sacred ground

Put Him in a box behind some doors

Post-Chorus

Oh, I tried, yes I tried

Oh, I tried, yes I tried

Chorus

It takes a fool to think we can hold the sky

take the lightning, call it mine or yours

Draw a line, call it sacred ground

Put Him in a box behind some doors

Post-Chorus

Oh, I tried, yes I tried

Oh, I tried, yes I tried

Verse 2

Man with a Bible, man with a stone

Swears he's right, but he stands alone

Told me love was a narrow road

But the open field's where I been shown

Pre-Chorus

Can you see the river run, wild and wide

Can't build no dam, Lord, no matter how I tried

Chorus

It takes a fool to think we can hold the sky

take the lightning, call it mine or yours

Draw a line, call it sacred ground

Put Him in a box behind some doors

Post-Chorus

Oh, I tried, yes I tried

Oh, I tried, yes I tried

Bridge

Standing on the shoreline, watching waves collide

Questions rolling in like the ever-changing tide

What makes us think we know, what we can't define

Truth keeps slipping further every time we try

Chorus

It takes a fool to say they've seen the whole

every crooked path, every soul that's lost

To name the nameless, fit it in their hands

A mystery too wide for any man

Post-Chorus

Oh, I tried, yes I tried

Oh, I tried, yes I tried

Outro Verse

Spent my life chasing after what can’t be caught

Questions in the mirror I never outthought

How can I seek the heavens, reach for what’s above

When my own reflection I can’t pin down or love

Outro

Oh, I tried, yes I tried

To know it all, to tame the tide

But I can’t see the whole of me

So how could I see the divine inside

Oh, I tried, yes I tried

Oh, I tried, yes I tried