How long do you sit in the stench
Of shit before it smells like roses

Don’t ask if you really don’t want to know

Can you hear the cling of the doors
Closing not caring if they will ever be reopened

don’t confuse complacent with complicity
If your heart not allowed to grow

don’t ask if you really don’t want to know

Cant control the bang in your head
Pen the pain
Pen the pain
Count the raindrops, can you count rain

What sound does silence make when the noise
Is quiet
don’t say you will when you know its impossible

don’t ask if you don t really want to know

Time heals all wounds unless the wound bleeds
Blue breath ya think
Does death have a color
What is the color of rest
Do I want to know

Smile step laugh step , give step
Tired step , wilting step , hold on step
Step step step one day at a time a min sometimes please

Okay one more drink then I will put it to bed
I will lay here and dream that I am now dead

If by grace I am allowed to rise tomorrow
I will try to put down from today that I borrowed
A whole lotta hope and a bag full of sorrow

didn’t I tell you ……don’t ask what you don’t want to know

Misty Blue - Mary J. Blige