The jester sang if you must go

Down the Honeysuckle Road

Make sure you travel light

And make sure your travel slow

You may not find your way back home

You may feel all aloneYou may reap all that you have sown

On the Honeysuckle Road

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The jester said unto the king

What would you have me play?

The king said to the jester

Please play king for just one day

The jester said give me your crown and robeI can wear them for a day

But what will become of your soul

That I cannot say

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When you get there you will know

You’re on Honeysuckle Road

It smells so sweet till your fate unfolds

Along Honeysuckle Road

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In the kingdom lived a blind man

Who saw visions in the night

The people came from all the land

To be healed by his light

The king said to the blind man

Can you give me second sight?

The blind man said yes but you’ll lose

Your sense of wrong and right

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So on his own the king did wander

Far from his abode

Somehow he’d found himself walking

Down Honeysuckle Road

There was much he did not want to know

Bout the heaviness of his load

There are so few signposts for the souls

On Honeysuckle Road

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On a mountain top the king called out

I’ll happily exchange

All of my possessions for

A life that is unchained

And if I’m not keeping with the Law

Then I pray please mend my ways

I come here as a pauper to be

Properly ordained

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Then the king heard the voice

Of a young child calling out to him

You probably thought this was the end

But it’s where you must begin

The kingdom is full of meanness

And preoccupied with sin

So take back your crown and robe

And become the king again

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The king put on his crown and robe

With great humility

He had learned many false secrets

That were called philosophy

He harbored few illusions now

Bout the journey to be free

To the jester he bid farewell

With bowed head and bended knee

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The jester sang as he went back

Down Honeysuckle Road

Make sure you travel light

And make sure your travel slow

You may not find your way back home

You may feel all alone

You may reap all that you have sown

On the Honeysuckle Road

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Chorus