C                      G         C 
It seems I've imagined Him all of my life 
         F        C          G 
As the wisest of all of mankind 
        F           C         G         Am G F 
But if God's holy wisdom is foolish to man 
                    Gsus G      C 
He must have seemed out of His mind 
     F         C     G          C 
For even His family said He was mad 
          F              C         Gsus G 
And the priest said, "A demon's to blame," 
    F           C           G           Am  G F 
So God in the form of this angry young man 
                      Gsus G     C      >(run to F ) 
Could not have seemed perfectly sane 
 
Chorus: 
     F           C           G              C 
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise 
Am                         F        
He played the fool and He opened our eyes 
C                F         G              Am 
When we in our weakness believed we were strong 
             F         G            C      >(run to F ) 
He became helpless to show we were wrong 
    F       C     G         C 
And so we follow God's own fool 
      F        C         Gsus G 
For only the foolish can tell 
   F         C   G   Am  G F 
Believe the unbelievable 
              Gsus G    C 
And come be a fool as well 
 
Verse 2: 

So come lose your life for a carpenter's Son 

For a madman who died for a dream 

Then you'll have the faith His first followers had 

And you'll feel the weight of the beam 

So surrender the hunger to say you must know 

And the courage to say I believe 

Let the power of paradox open your eyes 

And blind those who say they can see 
 
Repeat Chorus (run to 
F ) 
 

End: 
    F       C     G         C 
And so we follow God's own fool 
      F        C         Gsus G 
For only the foolish can tell 
   F         C   G   Am  G F 
Believe the unbelievable 
              Gsus G    C 
And come be a fool as well