Tenor Alex Lyons sings Ben Platt's "Ease My Mind" with Robert Winkley at the piano as the Musical Meditation on June 9, 2024 at First Church Boston, 66 Marlborough Street, Boston MA
Ben Platt (b. 1993), Tony award winning actor, singer and songwriter. Out magazine calls him Broadway’s new gay romantic. He has a refreshingly interesting take on his own art and expression. He said, “I think a lot of queerness in music is expressed with a lot of pride and aggression and is sexually forward, I think that’s fantastic and it makes me excited and happy to hear it, but I think isn’t necessarily my identity or what I feel is most organic to me.” About the song sung today, “Ease my mind” written back in 2019, he says that he is grateful to have an “opportunity to represent my relationships and the men that I’ve loved…I’ve been out since I was 12 years old to my family and anyone in my life…I’ve never sort of hidden that or been ashamed by it, it’s just part of me” In speaking about his most recent album Honeymind, to Out he said, “I was excited about the idea of something that lived in a bit of a softer, sweeter place but was still as forthright with its queerness as possible.” In my mind, what is great art and gift of expression does just that, it tells an authentic story, but the emotions expressed are organic to anyone and everyone who yearns and loves.
Most days I wake up with a pit in my chest
There are thoughts that I can't put to rest
There's a worry that I can't place
Most nights, I am restless and quiet won't come
So I lay there and wait for the sun
There's a trouble that won't show its face
You came out of nowhere
And you cut through all the noise
I make sense to the madness
When I listen to your voice
Darling, only you can ease my mind
Help me leave these lonely thoughts behind
When they pull me under,
And I can feel my sanity start to unwind
Darling, only you can ease my mind
I'll admit, for a moment I felt so afraid
Just to show you the mess that I made
There are pieces I usually hide
But when you collect me with your steady hand
With a language that I understand
I feel put back together inside
You came out of nowhere
And you cut through all the noise
I make sense of the madness
When I listen to your voice
Oh Darling, only you can ease my mind
Oh help me leave these lonely thoughts behind
When they pull me under
And I can feel my sanity start to unwind
Darling, only you can ease my mind
Darling, only you can ease my mind
Help me leave these lonely thoughts behind
When they pull me under
And I can feel my sanity start to unwind
Darling, only you can ease my mind
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