The Fool

from Light Is Forever by Ben Wyvis

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I was traveling in an automobile through a nondescript English town, I think we were on holiday.
I opened my eyes in Reykjavik, except I’ve never been there before. How could I know?
It was fashioned like a Mediterranean city, like Lisbon if I remember correctly.
Except it was all Sigur Ros themed, and I had forgotten the names of the members.

It was Mells, Somerset and I was meeting family friends.
We went to get a drink from a line of taps on a wall that doesn’t exist.
He laughed at me when I drank,
And a girl told me I had a rigid face
And I still don’t know what she means
And I still don’t know why he laughs.

I asked for a nightmare and I got it
Not the way I wanted.
Was I a fool to cling to dreams?
Or is there more to them than what it seems?

I took a high-speed train with a familiar girl but I forgot her name.
Some guy was picking on a small child and I knew him rather well.
I fought an Albert Camus lookalike in a quarry.
Why must I forget, as soon as I have awoken?

Mum wanted to know about the man in the red room;
The white tiles went black, and the man went mad.
We learned about fishes in biology in german, or was it in french?

I asked for a nightmare and I got it
Not the way I wanted.
Was I a fool to cling to dreams?
Or is there more to them than what it seems?

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from Light Is Forever, released August 27, 2021
SAM ECCLESTON – Composition, Production, Vocals, Steel Stringed Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar
ALTON STEVENSON - Production, Ambience, Synth

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From London to New York, folk and ambient fabricates itself in the mossy hollows of Ben Wyvis' two members: Alton Stevenson (NY) and Sam Eccleston (LDN)

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