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WWNBB#091 - The Good We've Sewn

by Jake Bellissimo

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1.
Carrie's Dad 03:16
I will try to remember last year and how it went in the order that it really happened in I wouldn’t know where to begin but I've memorized where it usually ends With my face glued on some floor and my body outside my head Who fell in love first and in which parking lot? And what really happened to Carrie’s dad? And am I on the Autobahn or back in a Greyhound? It’s hard to tell While we were at dinner today I told you how strange I thought it was that you don’t remember things in the order you want them to Well, at least for me, they appear in the order that’s easiest to consume
2.
I still can’t see our relation to the ship we threw off-course and that’s why, of course I can’t tell why I feel weak in the knees Is my heart feeling love? Or is it feeling heart disease? Colors that can only be seen overseas A boy from Portugal who isn’t Portuguese The times we got drunk on rosé with ease and a love that didn’t know which side to please Oh, So, that’s the way it goes I’ll find a sky without a hole A new hobby to pursue and a new TV show to get wasted to So, that’s the way it goes The time we had won’t come back but new time will grow Burning skies and White Nights without sleep The way the light touched your eyes off Venetian sea So, that’s the way it goes Nobody has a heart without some holes but trying to fix them leads to no end and that’s why I might go clubbing again So, that’s the way it goes but the keyword is “goes”, it goes, it goes I still have so much I've yet to know but, unlike last time, I’m a little less tired of letting things go I spoke our names out loud to an empty street and heard them bounce back for the first time without meaning It took that moment to occur to me We had fallen in love but then we fell out
3.
In Weston 01:59
Only in my dreams have I seen you so recently But talking about it is getting old I have to fix what I've been told Got lost on the way home In Weston without a phone Didn't matter, it was a no-reception-zone I almost gave up 'til I found a tree that said “Wait, I will tell you the truth I might have to change, but stay with me for a while Because I will not change you”
4.
Piece of Ivy 02:17
Piece of ivy, why Are you the one who's growing up in size? Forget your life Cut from your branch and placed onto the table in my room Was that too soon? I kinda like how you look from across the room Growing roots Oh, I find it slightly easing how you can change your way of pleasing the different conditions you need to keep your mind and body healthy Oh, I empathize completely 'cos I've been ripped and put in a new place With the same face Piece of ivy, I Can't tell which one of us was really Cut through with a knife and placed into a jar with a new life To redefine the space between the skin and water lines Piece of ivy, I want to be like you and you be mine.
5.
Fenway Park 02:48
Look at us in the dark Dancing queens I can’t help but think about the nights so stark That I spent in Fenway park With my dad and his dad Not alive but burned on the underside of my seat While the grand marquee sang something sweet about someone named Caroline So what if that’s all we had? We did all we could and that was that I’m sure psychologists would like to assume what it says about me Why I’m here With you Dancing In the dark So look at us and look at me But don’t reach in Don’t reach in me But if you do, don’t tell me what’s inside or why it’s there ‘Cos I don’t care why I love you I just do
6.
“Our words have power” you said while laughing but I disagree We might be making a real change or else I wouldn’t give my life away Eyes off the road to feel me up Crash into a tree, an abrupt stop A flock of birds fly our way I can’t tell who we really want to save It might break My heart and bones but strength is what I need to grow Because if my brain is filled with things I can’t separate from evil deeds Then I don’t care About my heart or bones If that will lead me to a place I can call home Because that’s the thing— I don’t have to know I don’t want to know if this is real or the color of my beliefs in Huehuetenango I see God in this bird and I see God in your eyes But just like the bird, and God, and us I have to let you go and fly I might stick it up to God if I knew there was no price and I could live life and not risk My eternal paradise
7.
An old world power just made a mistake and someone wants to call it “Independence Day” My week has not gone as I had planned but sometimes you get a feeling that rips it out of your hands Oh, I want to know how much it takes to remember The coldest night The coldest night you felt warmth in December The liquor stores that close early are the only ones that are near So I’ll have to resort to learning how to re-draw the atmosphere over the course of another year As I walk past where we had our first date It hurts to think that some will call this “Independence Day” My impulsiveness made a mistake and now I have a letter to send But I don’t think there will be another chance to sit outside with you watching other people dance
8.
I thought I really killed him when I re-arranged his insides As a statement of well-being so I could once again pick a side But instead he just came back and now it’s beautiful all over again I woke up to find blood on my pillow The air of springtime must have gotten to my head I think this bookstore has a different layout since the last time I was here And I still haven’t finished this book I bought from this store this time last year So I don’t know how it ends But I also don’t really care I buy another book because an ending isn’t as important as another love affair This supposed recurrence is too good at blurring time It makes it hard to tell which part of me I should change and which part of me is “au naturale” But just like Heine or Nietzsche and how we couldn’t see the bottom line The way I kissed your hand The way the ocean meets the sand The way two nations fight The way we cried through the night The way an atom splits The truth your mother left in the wind Will all be up to repeat again Yeah, so I thought I really killed him when I pulled out my knife But the wound keeps healing and re-appearing because, apparently, it’s the recurring kind
9.
I am beneath Ocean blues and dancing cues Stuck to the floor like glue Inbetween what it might mean to feel liberated and not free ‘Cos words accrue, they always do and that was my mistake I was entranced by the sound Until I soon found It dropped me off in the same place But don’t tell me it wasn’t worth it ‘Cos if more candlelight will ruin my foresight then I’ve gotta lose it 'Cos when I yelled out across time zones I couldn’t really tell if the voice I heard was my own Jake, you have to go outside! And, at least, act your age! You gotta get back into school and try to get some As! And finally finish your degree! And Jake! You have to feed yourself! At least twice a day! You can’t forget that and pretend you’re saving all this cash when your body feels like trash! And Jake! Sometimes it’s really fine! to have a body-less night pay for your meal as long as you find a safe way home Don’t hurt your mind and never think of him! So Jake! you have to try your best So when you ask yourself if you’ve tried your best you can, for once, say YES! (Say!) Don’t tell me it wasn’t worth it ‘Cos if more candlelight will ruin my foresight Then I’ve gotta lose it And don’t tell me it isn’t over because the good we’ve sewn has just let me know that things will never be like they used to 'Cos you know that I’ll find you, I always do Though that might seem quite strange Because you’ve joined the lines beneath my eyes and those don’t change no matter what I re-arrange
10.
Noise War 02:52
The streets are draped with malice that’s recycled from a time when I could not even promise if I would stay the night There’s a phrase that’s runnin' through my head that I cannot implore I realize that my heart hasn’t kissed this air before And I realize my heart has never kissed this air before I don’t think I have seen a day where the sun’s a better shade But that’s because there’s no sun outside now the sky is grey But the absence of an image allows me to fill in the holes So I don’t think I have ever seen a sun so beautiful No, I don’t think I have ever seen a sun so beautiful Why can’t I understand that this door locks from the inside? And if the outside rain can’t touch the floor then I don’t have to hide What sounds like a noise war comes from a radio concrete I see a crowd get frightened and run right across the street I see a crowd get frightened and run right across the street My face is draped with malice but it’s changed and now benign I had to lose track of my place in time and God’s design Which I never really believed or had ever accounted for I realize that my heart has never kissed this air before All I care about is my heart hasn’t kissed this air before My face is draped with malice but it’s changed and now benign I had to lose track of my place in time and God’s design Which i never really believed or had ever accounted for I realize that my heart has never kissed this air before All I care about is my heart hasn’t kissed this air before
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12.
Bill, you were caught again with your hands up in the sky Wholeheartedly outside your head but your body in the same bed With the stain from your wedding day The joy we never could re-create If after all you’ve seen but never done you want to say your life is through I'll just say that isn't true Because, you know, You can take it back for you You can take it back from you You can take it all for you You can take it all for you Because it’s just as bad as having no enemies Bill, you look as scared to die as you were to live I’m sorry we couldn’t speak to each other’s lack of sense or future tense Bill, you look as scared to die as you were to live Will you remember when we saw love? Will you remember when we saw love in each other?

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«In the summer of 2016 I was having trouble finding ease in my life, learning the difference between happiness and fulfillment. During this process I started to notice how much beauty was manifested in things I previously didn’t notice, like my surroundings and friendships. As a result, “The Good We’ve Sewn” is a collection of recordings that features sounds taken from the worlds of me and my friends, focusing on the linking factor of our beating hearts.» (Jake Bellissimo)

If I have to pick a wish I’d like to see fulfilled in my life, it’s that I don’t ever want to lose the ability to marvel at things and experience sincere amazement. Be it marveling at a beautiful blue sky with no clouds, or at the way some words lined up one after the other can fill your eyes with tears, and again the wonder for how love changes shape with time, or that of an unexpected encounter who keeps you up all night walking and talking non-stop: I wish I could say one day “of all the things people miss in their lives, in this one I’ve never lacked marvel”. And I’d be happy. A similar sentiment can be experienced in Jake Bellissimo’s music. The young singer-songwriter from upstate New York, who started their career as Gay Angel and released an EP in 2016 (Piece Of Ivy, Drunk With Love Records), have released their first full-length, which already shows great maturity. Try to imagine some elegant orchestral-pop that connects Andrew Bird’s poetry with Bright Eyes’ urgency, managing to extend into sumptuous arrangements reminiscent of Belle & Sebastian or Jens Lekman. Jake’s background in classical music preciously influences their sound, both in the fired-up and engaging moments (i.e. the single Independence Day), in the delicate and idyllic ones (In Weston); in stripped acoustic songs like Noise War, and when their sound gets as colorful as a musical, such as in the title track The Good We’ve Sewn. This is a captivating album that whispers in your ears, a debut that is saturated with feelings of pure amazement and marvel. The Good We’ve Sewn is out now in two very limited edition 12″ vinyl, pink and clear, and it’s also available on jewel case CD and digital.

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released October 20, 2017

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