It Takes A Village Idiot - Graham Parker

I got my dunce’s cap and cardboard sword

And I’m droolin' as you talk to me

You say I should be in a mental ward

That might seem like home to me

'Cause I don’t get it, I don’t understand

And I think love’s overrated

Why can’t a woman be more like a man

Instead of complicated

Yeah, It takes a village idiot

Ooh, it takes the class clown

And his whole crew

There’s one idiot

In this village, girl

I guess it isn’t you

You wanna be listened to

And held and told

The things that really matter

But it’s so subtle I just can’t grasp hold

And all I know is idle chatter

You say it’s simple but I’m simple, too

And I don’t tell you this with pride

But when I put together two and two

I keep comin' up with five

Yeah, it takes a village idiot

To get things wrong

It takes the class clown

And his whole crew

There’s one idiot

In this village girl

And I don’t think is you

Do better than your best

This is not a test

That’s what you keep tellin' me

Stop and think a bit

Only an idiot would

Look at a forest

And just see a tree

It takes the class clown

And his whole crew

Ooh, yeah, it takes a village idiot

There’s one idiot

In this village girl

I guess it isn’t you

I guess it isn’t you

I guess it isn’t you, ooh