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3 Blind Mice

from Don't Listen to My Face by Jessica Ripka

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lyrics

Three blind mice
Warned me twice
About the likes
Of people who follow their dreams

They said they die
The most horrible ways to die
Like losing both your eyes
From dreaming your dreams all night

(How d’you lose both your eyes with your eyes closed?
They never answered me that)

Instead they said
Do take care
Always be aware
And never ever dare
To believe you can be happy or lovely or talented or important or free
Especially free

Instead they said just wear grey
Every single day
And be our slave
And, by the way, find a job to pay
For all the bills we accumulate
How do mice accumulate bills to pay they never say
I’ve asked at least a dozen times today

(chorus)
So.
I never dared to leave their lair
Unaware of the songs I wanted to sing so badly

Because they said
Don’t. Write. Songs.
Especially songs that are long.
Or songs that go on and on….
About mice or things that are fuzzy.

They said, “Dear, you know it’s true
People just wouldn’t like you
They’d laugh and they’d scoff and they’d boo
Yeah, they’d scream the moment they saw you – they would!
They’d scream the moment they saw you.”

And for years I believed
They lies that they would feed me
Thinking they were keeping me safe
And out of harms way
I wanna be safe and out of harms way

(chorus)
So.
I never dared to leave their lair
Unaware of the songs I wanted to sing so badly
No I never dared to leave their lair
Unaware of the songs I wanted to sing so badly

Until I found
In a swanky restaurant downtown
As a mouse ran through the crowd
And they – screamed and screamed and ran across the floor
Screamed and screamed and threw him out the door
But screamed and screamed, “Please sing your song once more.”

Really?

So…
I ran away
From the mice that day
And I placed their cage
In the flames of a dumpster downtown
Yeah, I ran away
And I never became
As grey and as lame as they told me I had to be

So I a word to the wise
If you know of these mice
Don’t believe their lies!
Cuz they’ll scream and scream and run across your floor
Scream and scream – but throw ‘em out the door
Dream your dreams and sing this song once more
Remembering that they’re just
Three blind mice.

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from Don't Listen to My Face, track released May 1, 2010
Produced and performed by Jessica Ripka. Violin by Ian Tobasco.

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