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Medicine

by Bel

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1.
the clock said to break our brain in two that’s when i knew you got me listening for cues seeing salt with just a few words more than i’m used to so call me soft or call me tender call me ending up with nothing spending more time on forgetting than forgiving, or fending off the second guesses, bending just because my bones can handle it and no matter what shape i’m in i always end back with this body of mine knowing inside i’m grown like a garden knowing outside is not like we wanted so you see i’m getting there wear my heart like a sweater on my sleeve, and i won’t let the winds of change give me that headache again i know you’ve got the better end i know you set the record straight at least a thousand times but tell me so i don’t forget how i’m more hopeful than honest more broken than caught up with the way of the clocks so get rid of my conscience ‘cause even your shadow is ghostly, forgotten i’m hoping i brought enough light for the both of us i’m more like soil every day more earth in my bones than rain in my veins when softness is power i’ll grow here again and no matter what shape i’m in i always end back with this body of mine knowing inside i’m grown like a garden knowing outside is not like we wanted knowing full well i won’t always be pardoned knowing this isn’t the end of the bargain body of water, body of mine body that bears the shape of time body of water, body of mine body that bears the shape of time body of water, body of mine body that bears the shape of time body of water, body of mine body that bears the shape of time
2.
Middle Name 03:30
don’t tell me your middle name you know i’ll say it sounds the same as mine and don’t tell me the color of your eyes i’ll stare too long until i recognize you don’t tell me you’ll come back soon and bend your body like a crescent moon i bet you’ll stand up straight when you walk away lose the slouch you use to fool me that you’ll stay and don’t tell me your middle name don’t tell me your middle name don’t tell me you don’t believe in god i heard you cry lord when you saw blood on your finger, for putting your hand where it doesn’t belong don’t tell me you don’t believe in god don’t tell me you don’t believe in god don’t tell me you don’t smoke, i saw the fire from miles away, the sulfur in your shame when you wax poetic, a candlestick melting i was taught not to trust an open flame so don’t tell me that you’re broken, don’t tell me you don’t smoke and don’t tell me your middle name don’t tell me your middle name everyone’s gonna let me down if i let them everyone’s gonna let me down if i let them everyone’s gonna let me down if i let them everyone’s gonna let me down if i let
3.
Sweet Tooth 03:03
i left you shoving your head in a cabinet thought you could dump your voices and take up mine instead and when you fell apart with hysterical speeches they blamed it on the smell of coup d’etat and rotten peaches so am i your sweet tooth or another dirty word am i your sweet tooth or the no you never heard and you came looking first, a bloodhound playing dead to catch me laying beside you like your tomb was my bed and like a spider i thought i’d choked you on my web but you made playthings of puppet strings and wrapped them ‘round your head crying like a child for his mother ‘cause i’m another woman you can’t reach so tell me am i your sweet tooth or another dirty word am i your sweet tooth or the no you never heard am i your sweet tooth or another dirty word am i your sweet tooth or the no you never heard the no you never knew till you held it in your hands felt it pulse with adrenaline of first love & contraband all you asked for was the sun but you can’t take the heat now do the lilacs in my hair make your losing streak complete and maybe my king is a flame and its embers maybe my queen is rosemary to remember the taste of you fade with the riverbeds brimming but in this version i outlive you, i’ve only gone swimming
4.
Wide Eyed 03:31
if it’s the medicine you’ll swallow you can tell yourself to follow all beginnings and if it starts to rain on your wedding instead of letting go or forgetting collect your winnings if it’s the only rest you’ll take you can tell yourself you’ll make up a little sleep and if you’re wide eyed enough to see everything that’s lost’s only to find and keep and if you keep saying you’re right you’ll find you’re right about that too and if you listen to the buzzing you’ll hear flies singing to you and if your eyes are wide enough begin to do what you were meant to do if it’s the medicine that goes down you don’t know everything you’ll know about yourself now and if you don’t like how that tastes you’ve got your heart in the wrong place and you’ll sell out so ask someone else for help now i’m willing to be proven wrong anyhow wide eyed, and yet, 20-20’s giving out and you can tell yourself that’s what this was always all about

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released January 31, 2020

music & lyrics by Isabel Furman

co-produced by Tieren Costello
audio engineered by Joe Abriatis
mixed & mastered by Hayden Arp
featuring drums by Ilan Korman

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Bel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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middle child indie rock

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