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[sid] => 138841
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Ignorance is Bliss
[time] => 2007-11-28 11:30:48
[hometext] => Looking too much into things can get you the opposite of what you wanted, which I know from experience. This is a piece that I wrote illustrating exactly that.
[bodytext] => You stand by the shore as you watch it all pass As you gaze in your reflection, cold and confused Your hopes, dreams and efforts, now shattered like glass Sprawled all over the water, abandoned and used You know I wont say sorry And neither will the ache from our last conversation But I cant help but feel a little alone And I cant help but hope you'd listen We wish on what we thought were stars But was actually a satellite And nothing seems to change the empty side of the bed That greets me every night It looks like everything is just a little out of reach Though my eyes are open to everything around me And I don't know if I can hear more preach When words are used so poorly Ignorance is bliss, Ive always heard, And I couldn't agree more But with love when lies are covered, You lose track of what youre hoping for [comments] => 0 [counter] => 164 [topic] => 75 [informant] => dieromantic [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => anguished )
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