"The Fool On The Hill" lyrics

"The Fool On The Hill"

Day after day, alone on a hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him
They can see that he's just a fool
And he never gives an answer

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round

Well on the way, head in a cloud
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud
But nobody ever hears him
Or the sound he appears to make
And he never seems to notice

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round

And nobody seems to like him
They can tell what he wants to do
And he never shows his feelings

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round

He never listens to them
He knows that they're the fools
They don't like him

The fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round


Thanks to Luke Hallett, Tim Lester, John Rikard, meka for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Paul McCartney, John Lennon
The story behind this song is a very strange event that occurred once to Paul McCartney and his friend Alistair Taylor when they both had a walk with McCartney's dog one morning: they saw a man on a hill behind them though there had been nobody there only a couple of seconds before, when they passed. That man told them what a great view of London was from the top of the hill. When the friends looked back a few seconds ago, the man was gone, although there was impossible for him to hide anywhere.
Paul McCartney told about this song, "I think I was writing about someone like Maharishi. His detractors called him a fool. Because of his giggle he wasn't taken too seriously. It was this idea of a fool on the hill, a guru in a cave, I was attracted to." McCartney wanted to show that people very often call the wisest men fools.