Name: Beautiful World
Duration: P00H02M34S
Description: first draft written our sophomore year of high school. will always and for ever be a capella

Beautiful World

from Beautiful World by Bandshes

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first draft written our sophomore year of high school. will always and for ever be a capella

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Beautiful world,
you shake me.
if only the people,
all us people
could know you

Beautiful Earth,
I’m trying.
finding light
where they say
there is none

oh, you’re dark around us,
they say it won’t change
but it’s those people
that make it that way

some of them pretend to be saints
some of them sway and sing
“I like the dark baby,
it’s comfortable here
just forget about good
and hold on to that fear.”

Beautiful world,
answer me,
do we play dumb
to live on lower expectations?

Beautiful world,
the lives you carry.
to watch people suffer,
succeed, just to watch
those below them suffer

they watch from a clean
modern tower
in arm chairs
with glasses of wine

some of them pretend to be saints
some of them sway and sing
“I like it up here, baby,
it’s comfortable in this chair
just forget about good; and
remember you’re not down there.”

Beautiful earth,
I choose your blossoms
I choose grassy hills
and desert skies
I choose wide oceans
and sunsets to lay down and watch

Beautiful Earth,
I choose to sink beneath your dirt
safe from the feet
of those who walk it
safe from towers and fake homes
and I’ll sing

“I like the dirt baby,
It’s natural here
just forget about greed
and let go of your fears
oh, let go
oh, let go”

beautiful world
let me know you

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from Beautiful World, released March 20, 2014

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Bandshes Hartford, Connecticut

Bandshes are an indie-folk trio from Hartford, CT.

Zoe: Lead singer and lyricist
Athena: Keys
Emily: Harmonies and violin

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