In a flash I'll change the universe or at least the world
I knew I'm so sick and tired of watching those who say
And never do you're right and this waiting seems to last
For hours as I wait impatiently and it's hard to find
The strength inside to be who I should be you're right

Why should I believe the words you're telling me are true?
It doesn't seem like anybody feels the way I do I'm not
Too proud to say when I was wrong everyone hates a know-it-all
So I thought I'd change the universe and the world I
Thought I knew but it seems that change is relative to
What we believe is true you're right


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    It's only the truth if you believe it...

    Many criticized F2F and TREVER for the dramatic change in sound on Ignorance is Bliss. I was taken by surprise myself at first, expecting that energetic yet melodic F2F sound, but as the songs revealed themselves to me I recognized the energy, albeit transformed as Trever lay down the most powerfully convicted and emotional vocal track (on what I would come to know as "Everyone Hates a Know it All") listening intently I was suddenly emotionally?/spiritually? overwhelmed by the depth and complexity of what was being conveyed. For the few individuals that really do understand this song, and the greatness of what it really means.... can really empathize with Trever, sharing in the irony that for so many they are so lucky to be Blissfully Ignorant yet by that very definition they remain precluded from the equally blissful joy of primal understanding and the kinship shared by the few. The enigmatic nature of the album's title reveals itself as a true paradox, but only to those few souls whom, much like Trever, are able to open themselves up to it, touching us in ways that allow us to experience life's multiverse on a much purer, albeit grander, and far more enlightened plane of consciousness.

    mjishereon May 07, 2009   Link

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