LYRICS
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
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
Chorus:
When you get there you will know
You’re on Honeysuckle Road
It smells so sweet till your fate unfolds
Along Honeysuckle Road
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
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
Chorus
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
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
Chorus
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
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
Chorus
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