Russo & Weinberg-All This Love

Wow, this song just keeps getting better and better every time I hear it again. Beautiful harmonies and perfect for an autumn afternoon-it was so lovely and warm today but now it's chilly and dark at five and I just realized that tomorrow it'll be December... Anyways, I really love Erez Russo and Adi Weiberg's acoustic sound-help them out with their debut album here.

Don't say it darling, cause you'll fake it
Don't hide the tears, cause I know you're breaking

All this love and all this pain you've given
All this love and all this pain
You bring them from another world.

Another tear just burst from the side of your eye
And I know what you're saying and I know it's a fucking lie

All these words, damn lies
All this pain in those fine fine eyes

All this love and all this pain you've given
All this love and all this pain
You bring them from another world.

Now the summer lies on my doorstep
And outside there's a lie and it's getting bigger and you know it

All this love, damn lies
All this pain in those fine fine eyes

All this love and all this pain you've given
All this love and all this pain
You bring them from another world.
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Oren Barzilay-Bitter Moon

What an exhausting week. This morning I felt that I had so much to say about the cease-fire, about the international media, about everything really but it was all based on emotion. And as the day passed and the quiet settled in, reason began to take over and my common sense is telling me that no matter what I say it won't really change anything. What's done is done and now we have to live with the results in the best possible way. I'm sick of the news and I'm happy that my facebook friends have gone back to posting silly pictures and songs that don't have anything at all to do with the situation. I still find myself checking the feed to see if anything has happened, especially after I hear ambulance sirens, especially since yesterday's (yesterday?! it feels like ages ago) bomb attack. But things are much calmer, even if people are still tense because of lack of closure-we just kind of put things on hold until the next round and it's really only a matter of time before the rockets start drizzling again. So I want to enjoy this temporary quiet to (try to) relax and Oren Barzilay's new song is perfect for this. At first I wasn't digging the high vocals but the song has really grown on me and I can't imagine it sung differently. It's very dream like and reminds me of those magical hours before the day begins and reality takes over.

Scratches like a lion bites like a fighting dog
Loves like a prince, a boy in love
Drinks the air is if there will be no tomorrow

Eyes closed hands as delicate as fur
A stranger's sad sun
Another bitter moon and it's over

Quiet like he knows, his soul is addictive
A beautiful sparkle rises, dazzling beauty
Barking like a hungry man, a pain that saws through

Eye's closed hands as delicate as fur
A stranger's sad sun
Another bitter moon and it's over

https://www.facebook.com/OrenBarzilayART

Walkaways- Skyfall

Yesterday at 16:30 my biggest worry was how I was going to finish 8 chapters of a book I had to read and 3 critical essays in 10 hours. By 17:00 after the news of the killing of Ahmed Jabari, the head of all armed forces of Hamas and many deadly attacks on Israel including Gilad Shalit's kidnapping, I was packing my bags wondering if I'd be able to make it to the Beer Sheva train station before the rockets start falling. There had been escalation since Sunday when 4 soldiers were seriously injured in an attack on their jeep near the Gaza border. The IDF struck back and on that day 45 rockets hit southern Israel, including two in Beer Sheva. I wasn't in the city on that day but I understood from friends that as scary as it was, it had become something normal-university went on as usual and when I came on Monday there was more fuss about the rare and heavy rainfall than the rockets which were already old news. A few weeks ago I had a discussion with some friends on whether to live in a city where occasional rockets are a normal thing that just happen and no one really cares about or to undergo an operation in Gaza in which all of the cities of the south are under heavy fire but afterwards there's quiet and normativity. It's a pretty tough call to make but from what I've heard in the last few months (and years actually) and what I've felt yesterday and today it seems that the citizens of the South have decided that after 12 years and 12,000 rockets enough is enough and they're willing to endure non stop sirens and trips to bomb shelters (or in most cases the stairways) if it means that there will be the possibility of living a quiet and normal life in the near future. At least a more normal life.

This is the end
Hold your breath and count to ten
Feel the earth move and then
Hear my heart burst again

For this is the end
I’ve drowned and dreamt this moment
So overdue I owe them
Swept away, I’m stolen

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At skyfall
At skyfall

Skyfall is where we start
A thousand miles and poles apart
Where worlds collide and days are dark
You may have my number, you can take my name
But you’ll never have my heart

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At skyfall

[2x]
(Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall)

Where you go I go
What you see I see
I know I’d never be me
Without the security
Of your loving arms
Keeping me from harm
Put your hand in my hand
And we’ll stand

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together

Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At skyfall

Let the sky fall
We will stand tall
At skyfall

The up and coming Walkaways made an amazing cover to Adele's hit-it's so powerful and emotional-and it's also great metal, something I find a bit hard to find!
 http://www.facebook.com/Walkways

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=291311

Dan Keinan-Stranger

I love living in the city-there's always something to do, more accuratly there's always the option of having something to do even when I don't feel like doing anything-which also becomes an option. I love to people watch and just walk around. But I'm so happy that I have a second home in Beer Sheva, outside of the city and outside of the center, where I can take a step back and slow down. It's not exactly green but it is a very welcome change of scenery. And then I have renewed energy to fall in love with the big city again. Anyways, this is one of the best songs I've heard recently and the clip catches the mood of the song perfectly. And to think that I was so close to missing it!

I have to get out of this city, it's not good for me
Bus noises, dust in the streets
Going out for a smoke, on the corner of Dizengoff  Arlozerov
Holocaust memorial eve, I can't find anything to eat

Stranger in a big city, roaming the streets
Lots of people, severe faces
Stranger in a big city, dreaming of green
The chirps of birds, sweet silence

http://dankeinan.bandcamp.com/album/-