You told me all you saw was diamonds

You told me that til I believed

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SVIIB – Windstorm

January 28, 2011

And here it is with Claudia, recorded a few months before, just before she left the band:

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School of Seven Bells – Music Takes Me

I hear you in the trees
Swaying as you sing to me (to me)
Feeling as your heart
Pulses through my weary body
Taking off the tears
And the heartache that I carry
Time to throw it down (down)
Time to light it up (up)
Raise it to the sky and watch it
Burn, burn, burn, burn

These days I’m feeling the sun come through
Stealing the starry sky
Revealing the magic show to me tonight
I’m feeling the moon come through
Stars sway under my feet
The lights all around me glow
And music takes me

I feel you as I breathe
Sing the songs you sang to me
I hear you when I sleep
Singing with me as I dream
And I just want to say
Thank you, thank you for all you gave
Thrown by the sound (sound)
Time to light it up (up)
Raise it to the sky and watch it
Burn, burn, burn, burn

This isn’t about being right
I’m just trying to follow
This life where it goes
It’s a gamble
I keep you wasting my time
With the daggers when guarding the
Love in my heart is the battle
Out at the house to the city
The fire that led me, accused me
The fire that feeds me
I’ll be remembering always the fire
That wasn’t my sea is the one who
Redeemed me

These days I’m feeling the sun come through
Stealing the starry sky
Revealing the magic show to me tonight
I’m feeling the moon come through
Stars sway under my feet
The lights all around me glow
And music takes me

These days I’m feeling the sun come through
Stealing the starry sky
Revealing the magic show to me tonight
I’m feeling the moon come through
Stars sway under my feet
The lights all around me glow
And music takes me

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“Put Your Sad Down” – School of Seven Bells

I know you gotta, you gotta be on your own
Who left you wanting, wanting to fall in love
That’s alright cause all that I wanna do
Is make you forget, forget that you feel so bad
Give your heart a second to find the will again
Put your sad down
And tonight just feel with your body

So baby no pressure
I’m just talking pleasure
So baby no pressure
I’m just talking pleasure
So baby no pressure
I’m just talking pleasure
And tonight just feel with your body
So baby no pressure
I’m just talking pleasure (x4)

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My Cabal, School of Seven Bells

My cabal, he sleeps outside
Pulling the shadows over the moonlight
My cabal, won’t you come inside
Forget the darkness if just for one night

Possibilities
Baited with personal inconvenience
Every time he feels
That baited resistance tugging at his sleeve
He struggles to find who
He struggles to see why
He’s weary with a weight
So often confused with authority,
But whose?

He sleeps outside
Pulling the shadows over the moonlight

I want to know why
Paper is so different
And what happens once these
Promises incubated hit the air
I want to know why the
Air becomes so thick and impenetrable
And why another set of rules apply, why?

My cabal, he sleeps outside
Pulling the shadows over the moonlight
My cabal, won’t you come inside
Forget the darkness if just for one night

Written by Alejandra Deheza, Benjamin Curtis, Claudia Deheza • Copyright © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG Rights Management US, LLC

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How can’t you see
When you’ve got the rain in your eyes, it keeps
You looking down
More of the same with a different name
Doesn’t have to be your story now

Hey
You’ll never find love within
When you only seek love in him
And he only takes from you what he can break
I’d never take from you, babe

You closed the door
On a raging fire and never put it out
Then you wonder why
Your blood, it boils, and it won’t calm down
‘Cause your heart is mine, and it calls you out

Hey
You’ll never find love within
When you only seek love in him
And he only takes from you what he can break
I’d never take from you
Hey
You’ll never find love within
When you only seek love in him
And he only takes from you what he can break
I’d never take from you, babe

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musicwar:

Song of the Day: March 31, 2016

SVIIB, “On My Heart”

I’ve posted here about SVIIB before – back when Benjamin Curtis passed in late 2013.  It was shocking then and is still hard to wrap my head around now.

The fact that his band was able to actually write and record music this generous and open-hearted before he passed (while he was so sick) is almost incomprehensible, sort of like the rabbit-from-hat trick Bowie also recently pulled off.

Curtis was involved both creatively and romantically with the band’s only remaining member, Alejandra Deheza. This is an album full of the ghosts of that relationship – love, friendship, ups, downs – and so it makes perfect sense that the video that best represents their final work together is the visual manifestation of what it feels like to viscerally feel the trace effects of someone after you’ve lost them.  Are they shadows, ravens, angels, blurry versions of the people they were when they were still alive? We all have our own answers for those questions, I guess.

I love music so sad and majestic that it actually makes you glad to be alive. It’s periodically good to realize that beautiful melodies and lyrics can still reduce you to inexplicable tears.  I can’t live in that space forever, but I can sure enjoy it for the length of a well-crafted album. 

“With me your love’s safe.” Is there a cooler, more affirmative thing you can tell someone while they’re still alive to hear it? (CdB)

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s0nnymewzik:

School of Seven Bells have released a music video for,“Ablaze”, which is the opening track from their fourth and final album, SVIIB.

Directed By: Alan Del Rio Ortiz.

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