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Piece of Ivy

by Jake Bellissimo

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1.
Piece of Ivy 02:18
Piece of ivy, why Are you the one who's growing up in size? Forget your life Cut from your branch and placed onto the table in my room Was that too soon? I kinda like how you look from across the room Growing roots Oh, I find it slightly easing How you can change your way of pleasing the different conditions you need To keep your mind and body healthy Oh, I empathize completely 'cos I've been ripped and put in a new place With the same face Piece of ivy, I Can't tell which one of us was really Cut through with a knife and placed into a jar with a new life To redefine the space between the skin and water lines Piece of ivy, I want to be like you and you be mine.
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Memento Mori 00:44
A doctor's mask just spoke to me A phrase I hadn't heard before, "Memento Mori" It stands for what we don't often see And we cannot escape death even in this city by the sea But that's a fact I cannot forget And it applies even though I can't read Latin but you do, and I like that about you
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Dave said that people who make their own legs go numb Tend to break their legs when they try to walk on them the next time So, for now on I look at my own legs when I walk after sitting on them for an hour So they do not snap and ruin the rest of my day Max told me he was worried That when I looked for an apartment I would be taken advantage of and cut up by the Mafia Because that's what happens to unsuspecting people When they are naïve and never seen again I watched a crowd of old beaten tourists lose self-respect when they got split up unsuspectingly And had to take the next bus Which was not for another few hours
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Swan Song 01:32
6 a.m. on an empty bridge Nestled in the Czech Republic My jacket's on, but it's not enough On a wet bench eating breakfast: Cheese with some type of Swedish bread I can't say the word, but it's in my head Knäckebrot? Hårdbröd? I can't pronounce it but I know I should I wonder what they're doing now If he's still with her and, if so, how does the light reflect off your beating eyes while the birds move in a line? In a winter garden with a view Raise a dog that likes to bite through fog I hope my knees are fine so we can exercise And figure out that swan song
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Munich 02:58
Dreaming in a bus I am Dreaming far away I am Dreaming 'bout that time I had I got a scar Speeding in a bus I am Across rivers and planes I am Stopping in a bus I am But stopping too soon Driving somewhere in a bus I know, I think I am It's late, but I can't tell that I'm dreaming in a bus I am Dreaming far away I am Dreaming 'bout the time I had opened my stomach Speeding in a bus I am Across rivers and planes I am Stopping in a bus I am Stopping too soon Driving somewhere in a bus I know, I think I am I know, I think I am Driving somewhere in a bus I know, I think I am It's late, but I can't tell It's late, but I can't tell that I'm dreaming in a bus I am Dreaming far away I am Dreaming in a bus I am But stopping too soon.

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“how does the light reflect off your beating eyes while the birds move in a line?”

The latest solo release from Jake Bellissimo without the gay angel monicker plays with making the intimate spacious and vice versa. This time without a large ensemble behind him, the music shifts between full band, orchestral arrangements, and acoustic moments. Taking inspiration from traveling and states of flux, Piece of Ivy is a transition point, a diary for the months following an exhale.

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released March 31, 2016

Written, recorded, performed, and produced by Jake Bellissimo

Acadia Braxton-Barto: vocals (Tracks 2/5)
Sean Lowery: drums (Track 5)
Nick Piato: trumpet (Track 3)
Ben Fernandes: co-wrote lyrics (Track 2), whistling (Track 6)

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♥ Drunk With Love Records ♥ hell, Michigan

Drunk With Love Records was a collective that existed from 2014-2021. It was a place for our music to exist, but now we have other places to go. Thanks for all who listened to us.
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