All I hold is fool's gold, the rest is out of sight So I'm waiting for So I'm waiting for li-li-li-light (Yeah) I'm stuck in a hole of my mind and soul and my yellow canary is dead I've been down here years digging for tears and excavating my head I've been scrimping, saving, dreaming, scheming, tripping all through the night But all I hold is fool's gold, the rest is out of sight Lying in the darkness, waiting for the light Lying in the darkness, until the day Lying in the darkness, waiting for the light Lying in the darkness, waiting waiting waiting Well the boys up top better pull me up 'cause the oxygen has got low I lost all my friends and I got the bends digging myself into this hole With my head to the stone, the grinding bone, but try and try as I might All I hold is fool's gold, the rest is out of sight Lying in the darkness, waiting for the light Lying in the darkness, until the day Lying in the darkness, waiting for the light Lying in the darkness, waiting waiting waiting So there I sat with my black flat cap on a catnap miner's stride Through the gloom of my pitman tomb, me and the golden bride Sun rays clippin' through the black of night Now I see that fool's gold, kept me out of sight Lying in the darkness, waiting for the light Lying in the darkness, until the day Lying in the darkness, waiting for the light Lying in the darkness, waiting waiting waiting Dark days are these, yeah I can't get no peace, no No change of season No rhyme or reason And my fingers are cold, yeah I'm just savin' away my I'm just savin' away my soul For fool's gold (waiting for the light) Yes I'm waiting for the light, yeah The li-li-light