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Ignorance Is Bliss
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I don’t sleep that much
It steals my shine gives me more time to
Overthink the things I’ve done
Though you don’t care for words they still spill from you like swords
Cutting through the groove you move to
I don’t care that much
The biggest lie that keeps me tied to
All the things I need to prove
A time to realign knowing well how to provide
I choose to care for the bones that move you
If knowledge is power
Ignorance is bliss
In the know not feeling strong
It’s the bliss I miss
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LYRICS - Ben Mellor
The man whose songs helped some decide to stay upon this earth,
A man adored by fans from east to west, from south to north
But whom no amount of love could help persuade him of his worth,
His illness dragged him down, they found him floating in the forth.
And the man who last month found his partner lifeless on the floor,
Now drinking every day to dull a grief he can’t express.
It won’t be long before he joins her on that distant shore
She was the only one who stopped him living to excess.
And all the men brought up by dads with iron-stiff upper lips
Who never learned to open up and talk of how they feel
Now raising sons with whom they have constrained relationships,
and still don’t know how to address the wounds they need to heal
All these boys and all these men are told to feel no shame
About their pain, their weaknesses, that they just need to speak
About what troubles them, it’s what the ad campaigns proclaim -
That if they simply ask then they will find the help they seek
And that’s all well and good but it can be hard to talk
When you can’t tell which is your voice and the ears keep getting cut
And the hashtags and celebrities, though well-meaning make you balk
At being told to open up when your local ward’s been shut.
So this is for the men and boys, the women and the girls
Who know that talking is a start but that you also have to act
Who know life’s gritty bits don’t always alchemise to pearls
But we may be another’s shell when we can see they’re being attacked.
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WE ARE WILLOW Manchester, UK
Creative studio and multidisciplinary arts collective, collaborating on projects engaging in cultural, commercial and community interest on a national and international scale.
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