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Ignorance is bliss - but not that it matters
the more that you know the more that you suffer
you think you're alone but take a look around you
you're just swimming in a sea of sorrows
your life force a speck of light among many
drifting along forever

You think you've found the one - your life force swells
your happiness influences others - infectous it spreads ; it wells
then lightning crashes your life falls apart like glass around you
the light goes out - your are less then you were before
the happiness that filled you is gone once more

The river it rises and chokes out the stars
you drown in your own sorrow - the candle flickers and dies
noone hears your cries - you die unheard in the undertow
you drift to the bottom and close your eyes
the silence seems like paradise

The waterfall of misery empties into the ocean of hopelessness
your body joins those of countless others - silent and listless
your spirit is free from the prison the brought so much pain
the feeling's the same

Nothing has changed you think that things would be better
but everything's wrong and suddenly you suffer
you realize that heaven is simply a reflection
of what you're acheived there before your ascension
and now it's too late - you gave it all up
instead of waiting it out 'till the river ran thin
and you could cross over

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