Talk:Fool's Overture

Overture means "opening", is the songs name Fool's Overture because it's at the end of the album, and it's played at the end of concerts? Kankkis (talk) 21:54, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

but what does it mean?
I love this song, but I've never been able to figure it out. What is it saying about Churchill? That he was a fool? That Britain was foolish for rejecting him in his later years? Or what? —Steve Summit (talk) 20:56, 2 October 2016 (UTC)

The lyrics may be vaguely about how an attitude like Churchill's, which is glorious at that kind of time, can appear like utter folly or meaningless nostalgia at other times, when the situation isn't as openly critical. The fool and Churchil have something in common, but only Churchill, at his "finest hour", had a matching audience/a people behind him. Churchill's friend Violet Bonham Carter commented in the 1950s that Churchill's particular genius matched the situation of WW2, while in the twenties and thirties he seemed to belong to a breed of politicians and men that had been left behind by time. 83.254.123.39 (talk) 19:47, 16 February 2017 (UTC)