Smadar Akray - I Didn't Mean To

It's so refreshing to hear a good pop song like this one- dreamy with a good beat yet down to earth, melodic and sweet but not too sugary. Light enough for August but not at all empty. Perfect for the end of summer.

My heart remains intact
When yours breaks once again
The last one and enough, so I'll stay
To sleep with you tonight, only until tomorrow
I'll wake up new
And you'll wake up and find out
That I'm not really yours
Really...

I didn't mean to
Take from you and run away
I took everything
I shut my eyes
Because that way it was more comfortable

My heart closed as a whole
For a long time, I've wanted to go
When I'm with you, I'm alone
This time I'm not coming back, don't wait
I won't lie for you
I'm not going back there anymore
With no one else
Really...

I didn't mean to
Take from you and run away
I took everything
I shut my eyes
Because that way it was more comfortable
To cover up...

I didn't mean to
Take from you and run away
I took everything
I shut my eyes
Because that way it was more comfortable...
To eat it all

http://www.smadarakray.com

Oh, and for something completely different- this video has been spreading through Facebook and rightfully so. Unfortunately, this is a fake trailer but I'd love to see a full movie version of...The Hangover Part 3: Bnei Brak! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XztQBVmMjZM

Chava Alberstein - Nature Girl

I don't think I've heard a song by Chava Alberstein I didn't like. She has the amazing ability to make you forget about everything that's going on and just focus on her singing and the emotion in her voice. After I heard this song I felt much calmer and at peace and it's exactly what I need during these tense days. This is basically a children's song taken from Chava's new children's album, probably the only children's album I'll want to hear with my younger siblings, and it's just as much for adults as it is for kids. The lyrics are actually quite dark with lines like "A black cloud in the sun/In the west swallows/How sad the land is/This song is about it". Maybe I'm looking into them too deeply because I'm thinking about the dark clouds over Gaza but maybe not. I've already had a taste of grad rockets in Beer Sheva in the winter in what felt like a preview of more serious things to come. Now it's starting to feel like the real thing and there is still tension because things can quickly get much worse. I'm away from the south so I can't say that I know how it feels. Just today rockets were fired hourly, which is already more than I've experienced, but there is a very shaky atmosphere in the air everywhere. Today a rocket hit a school, two weeks before the school year starts and that's sending a very clear message that they're aimed straight at innocent civilians and not army base camps. Just from watching the video clip of the rocket strike from last night and hearing the siren I get goosebumps and freeze in place and I'm not even there. Up till now the road to Eilat was always seen as a sort of road to freedom on the way to vacation. In the wide-open desert I've always had a sense of peace, much different from how I feel on the road up North. It's been a while since I've been in Eilat, but I remember passing by soldiers and everything felt safe and normal. If there was a sense of danger surrounded by our neighbors it was never present here. But things have changed and apparently are still changing. At least there's still the option to get lost in Chava Alberstein's beautiful songs and take a break from the chaos.

The stork dropped a feather-
With which I write
A rabbit ran past...
Who I love

A black cloud in the sun
In the west...swallows
How sad the land is
This song is about it

The clear water appears
In which I dip
The carobs are already ripe
Which I eat

A beautiful doe passed by
I'll hunt her with a song
Between the mountains the back froze
But tomorrow it will thaw

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4111504,00.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fR9onFpAqQ&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXeU_NiF2rjdwhjbILVPP0B5

Beit Habubot - What A Beautiful Day It Is Outside

There's something very surreal about this video. Maybe because you know that it was shot more than a month ago because it features a clean and tent-free Habima Square and Rothschild Avenue. There are so many materialistic features to this video like the jeep, bank and cafe that I don't even know if it would be made today. Maybe the creators would stop and say that there has to be more solidarity with the people and maybe not. Either way, it feels slightly irrelevant with so many citizens raging and the last thing they are thinking about is the beautiful summer, though maybe they are still enjoying the little pleasures in life like hanging out at the beach with friends. The only really relative line is "I don't say to myself anymore that things will work out" although personally I still do. Actually, this video is how I'd like my life to be in 10 years. Having fun at the beach with a group of close friends and showing off my baby. Minus the jeep. I don't know if I'll have a stable job with a pension and financial security, but I can control the fact that I'll be surrounded by people I love and take a break once in a while to enjoy the day with them.

I do not remember where to go
But I don't stop
Everything's starting to roll quickly
And another day passes
Again you came to me and again I ask
To wait or to give up
Every day I go through something else and don't advance

What a beautiful day it is outside
The sun is shining and you're so beautiful
And maybe there's been a mistake
And each moment can start from the beginning

I don't say to myself anymore that things will work out
Maybe I should look for a different place
There the quiet talks
Now it's already time to wake up
Or to find a new dream
The same familiar look that just says
That the heart doesn't give up

What a beautiful day it is outside...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Beit-Habubot-%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%91%D7%95%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA/78816815112#!/pages/Beit-Habubot-%D7%91%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%91%D7%95%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA/78816815112?sk=info

Tamar Eisenman - Creation

Tamar Eisenman burst into the Israeli music scene with her super catchy hits "Sun" and "Hit Me" and her kickass rock attitude. Now she's back with "Creation". I love that she still sounds like herself but with a refreshing funky jazzy addition. This song doesn't directly deal with the protest, but it does capture the strong yearning to start something fresh and new.

Home is a bottle of wine
Slow, down life is to start over all the time
Swing; Take a ride it's jazz over again
Free, that word should be expelled.

Why did they put these fences up?
All they do is hook my cut.
Don’t anyone blame us for that.
We want peace to be a fact.

Oh I don’t wanna be
Someone already existing, oh let's start creation from the top.

Boom, Shaboom boom kaboom means so much to me
Rules, what the fuck are they? And who should we sew?
Me, Is another word for you
Fate, A text message we erase

Why did they put these fences up?
All they do hook my cut.
Don’t anyone blame us for that.
We want peace to be a fact.

Oh I don’t wanna be
Someone already existing, oh let's start creation from the top

Stop, pulling up
Fences to our hearts
Stop pulling up
Stop, blaming us

Home is a bottle of wine
Wine is a bottle of grapes
It's time for creation

www.eisenwoman.com