Be yourself - It takes a fool to remain sane

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken
by Oscar Wilde

Today when I heard The Ark is going to do their last tour this summer I came to think about this quote. Read lyrics below and you understand why.

This is a feel good post.
To make anyone not feeling he/she is fitting in to feel better. 
To make anyone one feeling miserable a bit happier

I hope and presume the Arks music will stay for ever as well as Oscar Wilde's work & quotes.

This song once meant a lot to me. It still does. Listen and read the lyrics :-)

Lyrics to It Takes A Fool To Remain Sane :
Whatever happened to the funky race?
A generation lost in pace
Wasn't life supposed to be more than this?
In this kiss I'll change your bore for my blis

But let go of my hand and it will slip on the sand
If you don't give me the chance
to break down the walls of attitude
I ask nothing of you
not even your gratitude

And if you think I'm corny
then it will not make me sorry
It's your right to laugh at me
and in turn that's my oppurtunity
to feel brave

'Cos it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, it takes a fool to remain saneOh, in this world all covered up in shame

Every morning I would see her getting off the bus
The picture never drops, it's like a multicoloured snapshot
stuck in my brain
It kept me sane for a couple of years
as it drenched my fears
of becoming like the others
who become unhappy mothers
and fathers of unhappy kids
and why is that?

'Cos they've forgotten how to play
Oh, maybe they're afraid to feel ashamed
to seem strange, to seem insane
to gain weight, to seem gay
I tell you this

That it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, in this world all covered up in shame
(Oh, take it to the stage)

So, take it to the stage in a multicoloured jacket
Take it jackpot, crackpot, strutting like a peacock
Nailvarnish Arkansas, shimmy-shammy featherboah
Crackpot, haircut, dye your hair in glowing red and blue

Do, do, do what you wanna do
Don't think twice, do what you have to do
Do, do, do, do, let your heart decide
what you have to do
That's all there is to find

'Cos it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, in this world all covered up in shame
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, it takes a fool to remain sane
Oh, in this world all covered up in shame

Oh, it takes a fool
(It takes a fool to remain sane)...

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Soon after this "experience" I started to dance salsa. The dance made me wanting to come back again. To the land of everybody else. It gave me a context, friends & life except for the pure happiness.