Lyrics to
Fool Button

This version of Fool Button was released by Jimmy Buffett in 1978.

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I woke up in a strange room
That I’d never seen before
Weird paintings on the wall
And mirrors on the ceiling
I bolted for the door.

Looking for my rent-a-car
Was the Cordoba blue or red
Tryin’ to remember where I put the keys
Tryin’ to remember what I said.

I pushed the fool button
My night went haywire
I pushed the fool button
Set my brain on fire.

Now I was sittin’ in the corner of a very laid back bar
A little three piece band playin’ on the stand
Not knowin’ what lay in store
In a flash a man with a hat and a harmonica stormed the stage
The crowd went berserk, the band said, “What a jerk.”
As he went into a blues rampage.

It was a fool palace
Double knit on parade
They pushed the fool button
As the skinny boy played and played
Push it, push it, push it.

I try to make a point of protecting the innocent
But none of them can be found
I can happen anytime
It can happen any place
It can happen in your own hometown/

And if you don’t believe my words
Or think my story’s true
Get a bottle of rum and an Eskatrol
And watch the same thing happen to you.

We’ll push the fool button
I’ll meet you in the bar
We’ll push the fool button
Where everyone’s a star.

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About Lyrics and Fool Button by Jimmy Buffett

The lyrics for Fool Button are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Jimmy Buffett. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Fool Button have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Fool Button - Jimmy Buffett and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Fool Button by Jimmy Buffett in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Fool Button" means the words set to the music of Fool Button, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jimmy Buffett. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Fool Button and the lyrics to Fool Button are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jimmy Buffett who came here looking just for the lyrics to Fool Button, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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