Peace in Ignorance - Ariel McCleary (original)

Опубликовано 8 ноября 2019, 12:03

It's very overwhelming to be alive right now.

This past August, I was a few streets down from a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. I was there with a group of friends. 9 people were killed and 27 were injured in the event. None of my friends nor I were hurt from it physically, but the trauma from it is super real and has been a lot to handle for all of us. With all the shootings that are happening frequently in America nowadays, and all the political issues and re-elections coming up, not to mention all the trauma we see on social media from violence around the world... It's just hard to handle it all.

Everyone copes with traumatic events in different ways. Here's a song I wrote about one of the ways.


** Note: my lyric "27 dead" isn't referring to this particular shooting. 9 people died in this one, not 27. But there are so many shootings and so many people have died in them, so I chose a random number as a general statement.

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LYRICS:

Today on the news
another young boy shoots 27 dead,
I'm safer in my head
than at home in my bed.

Don't ignore the facts, they say,
but it's more fun that way,
So from now until I die
I've decided to be blind.

None of it makes sense
violence, gun laws, and silly politics,
I'd rather hold hands with fantasy
than live in this reality.

Romantic or nihilist?
Can't I be all of it?
In this crazy world we've got
why do we have to choose one school of thought?

None of it makes sense
Shootings, bomb threats, and stupid presidents,
So what if I decide to live in bliss?
There's peace in ignorance.

Living in the clouds
I'm free to make things how I want them to be
I recommend it highly.

None of it makes sense
Shootings, bomb threats, and stupid presidents,
So what if I decide to live in bliss?
There's peace in ignorance.

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