Mitzvah Bells

by Jesse Rosenthal

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First single from The Killing Language, available April 2021

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When the mitzvah bells ring
The covenant is upheld upon the stifled
crying
Doves leap from the gargoyles
And the city sings, together it sings

When you were just a butter-ball, with robin's eggs for eyes
You found your stomach in the mirror
And pinched the flesh
The seed of all your hatred in a body sign
in a minute’s time

If I was a sailor
I’d find the prophet’s wind
And chart a path that leads me back toward you
Spring of ‘98 this vision filled your mind;
a man with warnings in his foreign
language

silence builds a temple
And fear trains cavalry
the children of the country pay no mind to majesty
But you with fading magic were driven to your knees

Now I light the candles
And scorn the thought of love
Yet something in the haze has drawn my prayers to you
And with what power is left I’ll break on through

Well a great unfolding rolls toward us
To soar like the northbound bird
I cleave the halcyon days apart
Plummet back to earth like a
Falling star

If I was a sailor
I’d find the prophet’s wind
And chart a path that leads me back toward you
Spring of ‘98 this vision filled your mind;
a man with warnings in his foreign
language

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released January 15, 2021
Written, performed, recorded, and produced by Jesse Rosenthal
mastered by Jack Shirley

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