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Violets

by Belle-Skinner

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gayforthesun Belle-Skinner has such an incredible voice! I could listen to their discography all day. I love Fall Into The Earth, decay is a beautiful thing <3 Favorite track: Fall Into The Earth.
diane
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diane Belle-Skinner is the only musician i have ever recommended to people with a 100% rate of "hey, i listened to that thing you sent me, and then i went and listened to more." if you are someone who walks with a candle wick in their stomach like i do, put on this album. it will set you alight. Favorite track: Tapestry.
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1.
I wish I were the earth and all that's in between the falling of the stars and the turning of the leaves And when the stars awake we can go right back to sleep as we fall into the earth and all the worms And you and I were made from salt from clay from a fire from the sea and night from day And all we ever were and all we'll ever be is fodder for the earth and all the worms And there is nothing more that we can wait for And we don't have a choice as long as we all turn to dust And you and I will wake to a sweet decay at the bottom of the sea silky soft and grey And if we could only learn how to say these magic words we could all live like the birds like the birds
2.
Violets 03:24
When I was just a little girl I thought I knew love Was waiting for the world to show my one and true love And then I met the man that I am with today It's only now I see we made a big mistake Ooh ah, he used to give me violets But now he turns away and all I hear is silence Don't know what it means Oh why's he gotten so cold to me? I think back on the time when I was his one and only But lately, now I find, with him I get so lonely He'll never tell me what goes roaring through his mind And so I lie awake and wait for him at night Ooh ah, he'll promise me it's over Ooh and I'll go on pretending I don't know her What else can I do? I'd die before I'd find somebody new And all my friends, they tell me that I should pack it up and run away But I don't think that they can really ever understand That he can be so kind, so sweet sometimes oh, the words that he can say Besides, I know one day he'll come back to me again Ooh ah, and so I will believe him Because I know I'll never leave him And I know I can't win Oh, why do I do what I do for him?
3.
I don't know how to get out of this town Though Lord knows how I tried Seems like living is not allowed The cost of it is high Oh my soul is tired Oh my soul is tired I worked too hard, and I got too mean I can't look people in the eye It's gotten so I can't fall asleep And all my tears, they never dry Oh my woes, they won't quiet And all my tears, my tears won't dry oooh Oh I know I know it's time Oh I know I know it's time One of these days I will make it out God will help me see it through Plenty of space to move about And a window with a view Oh I hope I hope I do Oh I hope I hope I do Oh I hope I hope I do.
4.
Mon Cheri 02:48
Oh mon cheri Ouvre tes yeux Ouvre tes bras Et même ton coeur Oh mon cheri C'est la seule prière Que je dis pour toi Oh mon amour Est innocent Mais toujours tu es dans mes rêves Oh cheri Je t’aimes et t’attends J’en suis toute folle Pour toi, mon amour Et quand le ciel Le ciel s'éteint Ton visage sera la lumière Plus brillant que la lune Et le soleil Et les étoiles Et quand la Terre N'existera plus Ta voix sera plus qu’éternelle Oh cheri Je reste ici jusqu’à la fin Je suis toute à toi Oh mon amour Ce sont les mots que je voulais te dire Et maintenant Je vois que tu pleures là avec un sourire Oh mon cheri Mon coeur s’enflamme Parce que tu me dis Que tu m’aimes Et moi aussi Je pleure des larmes Des larmes de joie Oh mon amour Je te promets Que pour le reste de ta vie Tu seras ma raison de vivre Je t’adore J’en suis toute folle Pour toi, mon amour
5.
Tapestry 03:56
By the tall and the bearded barley And the fields where flowers grow In the tower of gilded ivory I weave my web alone Through the shadows of my painted mirror I observe the passerby I am cursed, I cannot come any nearer Although I don't know why So I weave and weave For my tapestry The knight, he arrives in splendour Feather-plume, ringing armour and spurs He calls out, but I do not surrender For if I do, I can't return I go on and weave For my tapestry And the years, they flow by like the river That weaves to the town, down below My shadow grows longer and dimmer I weave my web alone.
6.
Red 04:11
There is a space between the great divide That's where we'll meet before the rivers dry Before we count our final hour Tell all the people They don't believe They walk alone And when the sky it burns into your head That's when the moon will rise and she is red And all we have is the hour Terrible, fearful We cannot leave, nowhere to turn (ooh) Before we count our final hour Tell all the people They don't believe They talk out loud And all we have is the hour Terrible, fearful We don't believe We are alone
7.
The Papers 04:08
I read the papers yesterday They're getting harder to ignore Said that you're not here anymore I couldn't believe it I couldn't believe it Guess what, nobody could It's gonna take some time to clear it up But the suits and all, they keep on dragging in the mud I close my eyes, I hear you walking in the room But I couldn't see you But I couldn't see you No I couldn't see you Oh where, where have you gone now? Seems all we have is all we get and all we get is older And we take photographs that last as long as we can hold them And we take photographs but last I saw, you wore a different face I tried so hard not to forget you, but when I'm feeling lonely It's getting harder now to shake the sinking feeling that It could've been easy It could've been easy It could've been easy But look, look where we are now I played your message on the phone I was supposed to see you, you asked me when I was coming home It's been ten weeks, but all the words, they never change I wish it were easy I wish it were easy But it's nobody's fault
8.
It won't be long Can you hear that rumble? Everybody's changing Let it come, let it come I look ahead All these old familiar faces Are turning into strangers Every one, every one I can see them, I can see them all around me I can feel them, I can feel their arms surround me In the middle of the day In the middle of the night In the middle of the day It won't be long Til I can find my feet again Chasing footprints in the sand In the sun, in the sun Until the tide rolls in Washes over every trace Into new landscapes Til nothing looks the same, or is the same Can you hear that? Can you hear that thunder rolling? Is it louder than, is it brighter than that summer dawn, when I had to get away Oh I had to run away Oh please don't make me wait It won't be long It won't be long (bridge) Any day now, any day I'll know just what I'm after Doesn't matter how, as long as I can get to The place where I have got to be I am holding out my breath I haven't found it yet It won't be long It won't be long It won't be long
9.
See-Through 03:29
Mirror mirror on the wall You are not the fairest of them all You bring the world down, down to its knees Your words are only empty batteries They're not the truth And I don't care And I don't care And I don't care I'll cut off my hair All of my hair All of my hair I'll black my teeth Un-line my eyes Erase my smile 'Cause I'm onto you You're see-through Black mirror mirror in my hand Our lives are over at your command A single eye, a single mouth You're awful quiet, we are awful loud You're not the truth And you don't know And you don't care And you don't think You're everything You're everything And yet nothing And you don't see And you don't see And you don't see That I'm onto you You're see through (lala) Mirror mirror of my mind You're so peculiar, I cannot rely One minute you are always, always there The next, you're vanishing into thin air You're not the truth But really you Don't have to be Don't have to be Don't have to be Forever happy Forever happy No not for me And finally I can breathe 'Cause I don't have to be Yeah, onto you You're see-through

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released May 26, 2020

Engineered/recorded by Jason Brown at Starling Studios
Produced by Maria Brosgol and Eric Margan
Mixed by Eric Margan
Tape engineered by Rick Spataro of Onlyness
Mastered by Alan Douches of West West Side Music
Album Artwork by Mila Kapustina milakapustina.com

Maria (Belle-Skinner): voice, guitar, percussion, celeste, harpsichord
Eric Margan: Organ, Synth, Cello, Bass, Piano on Red, Flute, Percussion, Guitar
Aron Caceres: Upright Bass, Electric Bass on Red
Chris Carey: Drums
Mike Tedesco: Piano on Violets, Mon Cheri, The Papers
Jon Freeman: Violin
Mikaela Davis: Harp


IndieGogo Credits! For all the fans who made this album financially possible - thank you, from the bottom of my heart:

Melissa Dzenis, Phebe Nyckens, Anna Martin, Alexandre Apfel, Peach E Keen Cobbler, Tatiana Dzengluk, Hot Glue & The Gun, J.R. Garcia, Steve Murillo, Ernesto Gomez, Naia Brown, Cameron Gill-Engel, Angela Bove, Super Dark Collective, Chris Brown, Amanda Griffith, Jordan Vanderbeek, Mike Milazzo, Kevin Melsert, Scott Holcomb, Emma Kantor, William Sisskind (The Paris Buns), Shlomo Franklin, Lester Straw, Mike Tedesco, Jessica Eileen Carr, Andy Gregory, Kid Chem, Jeremy Spake, Ben Bar, Adam Muskin, Cyril Merle, Jim Bertini, Kseniya Ovchinnikova, Andrew Tivon Orenstein, Michael and Julie Garratt, Jehv Gold, Benjamin Russell, Mike Shoyket, Gwen Apfel, Rami Jourieh, Liz Constantine, Peter Murphy, Rosa Mendez-Ostram, Marjorie Herbert, Mikey B-L, Chris Weatherly, Ellen DeGennaro, Eric Margan, Colin Campbell, Zach Durocher, Andrew Bondarev, Will Raines, Deanna Fox, Lidia Needham, Kevin Fulton, Chris Connors, Kaarlo Luntta, Mason Chen, Sam Berry, Stephen Chen, Claire Ziff, Andrew Horowitz, James Kehoe, Marisa Siino, George Saide, Atmig, Jessica Bonelli, Abigail Dahl, Danielle Nedivi, Evan Moore, Rhys Maslen, Michael Cooley, Roy Thetford, Adamegan Fernandez, Don Schlotman, Virginia Herbert, Connie Saltzman, Ellie Damashek, Anna Brosgol, reallybigrock, Greg Kherlopian, Starling Studios, Lauren Peters-Collaer, Mike O’Malley, Vera Senkovskaia, Jennifer Stepanyk, Sydney McNulty, Ted and Nancy Smith, Vania Sousa, Christopher Morin, Saundra Malanowicz, Alex Evans, Jack Sasner, Grace Jones, Sophie Cooper, Philip Lynch, Anders Fahey, Annie Dang, Amy Marcus, Jana Vondrusova, Evan Jensen, Anna Filina, Katherine Barone, Christopher Ams, Brian Watko, Tyler Ng, Victoria Maxfield, Cayce Means, Eron Ackerman, Project Diem, Kevin Ni, Maria MacArthur, Kitty Keller, Thomas Angelo, Jack Butler, Matt Van Oss, Jeff Jacobs, Carson Ellis, David Pisani, John Atkinson, Rita Black, Andy Marino, Miles Stenhouse (The Road To Ruin), Nathalie Cooper, David Jackson, Matt Johnson, Dan Patterson, Gracie Terzian, Jimmy Affatigato, Nyna Nelson, Bri Morrison, Sean Ryan, Jimmy Hoffman, Alexia Antoniou, Daniel Skoldberg, Heather Tannenbaum, Anna Elliott, J Moliere, Nicholas Horner, Drew Tirella, Nicole Rodriguez (Pearla), Mallory Feuer, Caitlin Barker, Jesse Bolduc, Nadav Peled, puccinibite, Clare McCarthy, Darko Shishkoski, Darryl Kniffen, Christa Sousa, Rotem Sivan, Katie Skare, Ian Heller, Dasha Kuznetsova, Byron Nilsson, Kami Maltz, Brett Gleason, Riley Pinkerton, Kim Foxen, Mel Johnston, Robert Stein, David Segovia, Evan Harker, Wilson Wadill, Carl Daniels, Christie Waldmann, Morgan Reilly



All songs written/arranged by Maria Brosgol aka Belle-Skinner © 2020 All Rights Reserved

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Belle-Skinner is an indie-folk artist from upstate NY/Bklyn who mixes mid-century pop with fingerstyle contemporary folk, and then makes you cry.

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