Hump Day Jams

Wednesday, August 14

Have you listened to The Civil Wars new album yet? It is all I have listened to this week and I am in love. I am obsessed. It rings in my soul and it is perfection. Her voice is so unique and so beautiful. It's so hauntingly, stingingly, bitterly sweet. The harmonies they have together are so pure and easy. They sound like they are floating on air.

My friend Niki was talking with me about them and she said this ruby of a thought. "They sing life. They just sound like life." And they do. I love them.

My favorite song on the album is called Dust to Dust. I can't. Take a listen, beautiful world.

Also that album cover? Can they stop being so perfect? And these lyrics.

It's not your eyes,
It's not what you say,
It's not your laughter
That gives you away.

You're just lonely
You've been lonely
too long.

Oh, you're acting your thin disguise
All your perfectly delivered lines
They don't fool me
You've been lonely
too long.

Let me in the wall 
you've built around
We can light a match
and burn them down.
Let me hold your hand 
and dance round and round the flames 
in front of us.
Dust to dust.

You've held your head up
You've fought the fight
You bear the scars
You've done your time.
Listen to me,
You've been lonely
too long.

Let me in the wall
you've built around
We can light a match
and burn them down.
Let me hold your hand
and dance round and round the flames
in front of us.
Dust to dust.

You're like a mirror, reflecting me.
Takes one to know one, take it from me.
You've been lonely,
You've been lonely, too long.
We've been lonely
We've been lonely, too long.

via Tumblr

2 comments:

  1. I didn't realize they released a new album - so excited to check it out!

    Also, you remind me of Louisa Rose Allen of Foxes:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx0x5aRPhgk

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  2. What the! For some reason I thought they weren't making music anymore. Thank you for sharing this! I gotta get it now. Loved their first one. It was the default album for me, I'd just listen to it when I couldn't think of what to listen to and it always did the trick.

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Thank you for your words; they light a fire in my heart. You are lovely.