Name: Ophelia's Song
Duration: P00H05M30S
Description: Ophelia, The Lady of Shallot and many other great literary characters come to tragic ends, due to heartbreak, and the overwhelming sorrow of depression. This song imagines helping those characters pull themselves, and how to pull ourselves, out of the darkest water.

Ophelia's Song

by The Repressions

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Ophelia, The Lady of Shallot and many other great literary characters come to tragic ends, due to heartbreak, and the overwhelming sorrow of depression. This song imagines helping those characters pull themselves, and how to pull ourselves, out of the darkest water.

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OPHELIA'S SONG

Shall the effect of this good lesson
Stay with you stay with me
When givers prove unkind
Dry your life back dry your eyes
And keep your mind
Hey Blasted Hamlet
The stage is full of sad lost fools
Quit spilling your slings
Quit loosing your blood everywhere
Maybe the poison is in your ear
Ecstatic Hamlet
Pick up your skull and
Carry on

You’re not the only only, you’re not the only only one to take despair
Tear the flowers from your hair
Ophelia

Remembrance is just a guide
Know that path already trod
Be done with voices smashing you and all you do
Be done with eyes that can't see you
Be done with that which is not true
Which is not you
Be your own shelter
Carry on

You’re not the only only you’re not the only only you’re not the only only one To take despair
Tear the flowers from your hair
Ophelia

Now help me stop that barge
That saddest sail to Camelot
Help her awake now
That lovely lady lovely lady lovely lady lovely lady lovely lady of Shallot
Let’s save Elaine of Astolat
Don’t die for false love
Get thee hence from Lancelot
Weave your own mirror
Tell your tale clearer
Carry on

You’re not the only only you’re not the only only one to take despair
Tear the flowers from your hair
Ophelia

You are a light
Don’t let the garments drag you down
Don’t let the tumble put you under
Don’t let you drown
Don’t let you down
Don’t let you drown

Ophelia
Ophelia
Ophelia
Tear the flowers from your hair

credits

released November 14, 2020
Music by Benjamin Olson, Nate Lay and Barbara Dragon
Lyrics by Barbara Dragon

Guitars and Vocals - Nate Lay
Vocals and Bass - Barbara Dragon

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The Repressions New York, New York

THE REPRESSIONS are a forest music/folk-punk band featuring Barbara Dragon and Nate Lay. They write songs about books, nature, defending animals, injustice, being weird, and living with wild emotions.The band dedicates their music to anyone who has ever been made to feel small for being sensitive, kind, smart, or ill.
They play lively shows twice a week on Twitch! ... more

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New York (NYC), NY

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