Belltower - Lyrics (Rachel Rose Mitchell)

BELLTOWER by RACHEL ROSE MITCHELL is from the album SHADOW PUPPETS and is also featured on the double album LIGHT SHOWS AND SHADOW PUPPETS, released February 2015! ♥
When writing Belltower I was thinking of haunting
fun fact: sounds used in this song include oil sloshing in a bottle, whacking a pan and my departed dog barking
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LYRICS:
I've been waiting here for a while now.
What I'm waiting for, I don't know.
They tell me to make myself comfortable.
Whatever they say, this isn't home.
Where the eagles soar,
I can see it all, I can see it all.
High in the Belltower
that the snow surrounds.
Someone mutters the warning,
"Careful not to fall, careful not to fall".
When your fingers graze the sky
it's a long way down.
Do these walls protect me or do these walls seal me in?
No one tells me either way. No one tells me a thing.
Here, where I'm locked away,
I can see it all, I can see it all.
High in the Belltower,
vultures gather 'round.
Walls echo the warning,
"Careful not to fall, careful not to fall".
When the birds watch as you fly
it's a long way down.
Watching the world from here
I see everything. Nothing short of everything.
High in the Belltower
far above the ground.
Someone's calling for freedom.
I can hear them sing, I can hear them sing.
Watch your steps around me.
It's a long way down.

[@bluebird1512]

I've been listening to these since 2015, so since I was nine or ten. These songs make me want to create songs, so thank you for inspiring me to do things when I was younger

[@iovena523]

I know that I'm pretty late but I just want to say... I admire your ability to paint pictures with music. Somehow I have whole sceneries in mind when I listen to your songs, it inspires me to draw and write again after a long period of my creativity just being, well, gone.

[@KerriB]

This song inspired a new story and Hey Alice was included in the playlist for my latest novel, Unchained Hearts, the first book in a dark fantasy series. Needless to say, I love your music! 💖

[@LucieSwogg]

How does this not have more likes or views or something like that? This is really good! Keep up the good work +Rachel Rose Mitchell

[@oliviamann556]

It makes me imagine of a person deciding if they should or not end their lives. They lost everything and they feel they have no one else to turn to. As they stood they looked up to the sky they imagined angels lifting them up to the sky. They are told they are sick and they are nothing but a burden to everyone then I guess they believed the voices who told them on a very cold winter morning they go up and they look down to the ground hoping the height would kill them. Then a nurse cries out to them to stop what they are doing but they don’t hear too well and as they move their foot so they could fall they are pulled back by the arm and caught and was held into an warm embrace and they start crying. The nurse comforts them as they are led back into their warm room and they could get more rest.

[@williamthompson4761]

To me it sounds like someone who is wondering if they are the villain, and if they want to continue this path, (a long way down) or if they want to change.

[@souurmilk]

Argh such a great song, why are you so unpopular? You're amazing!

[@billcipher3717]

BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE TO LISTEN TO THE SAME FIVE CHORDS OVER AND OVER AGAIN OR FIND INCREASINGLY CREATIVE WAYS TO MENTION DRUGS, SEX OR ALCOHOL

[@branwedavies7390]

I don't nget it even my friends listen to ed sheeran and other songs I'm like the gold stuff is over on this channel or gochek out Evanescence or go and listen to Melanie Martinez atleast

[@whochangedyoutube]

Branwe Davies Melanie Martinez? There's a claim that she's a rapist hanging around. People are scared of getting shamed for listening to her music.

[@artlessauthorite]

There's just something so poignant about the line "Nothing short of everything". i don't know what it is but I love it.

[@poppymiller4351]

Wow... Just wow.... I love this, and hey Alice, and butterfly, I just love you, this music is my new obsession. You are so talented and amazing.... I have no words...

[@Raven-wh2it]

This song speaks to me SO MUCH.

[@Sporbb]

This has become probably my favorite track of the album.

[@RachelRoseMitchell]

Thanks, I think it's my favourite too :D

[@dragonfire1259]

WHO DISLIKED THIS? IT IS TO AMAZING TO BE DISLIKED!!!

[@billcipher3717]

THEY BETTER PRAY WE DON'T FIND OUT WHO THEY ARE... (OFF WITH THEIR HEAD!)

[@fangirlcupcake4199]

bill at first I thought that was rage but then I realized that bill thinks in all caps

[@billcipher3717]

AHHAHAHAHA OF COURSE I DO, HATS OFF FOR CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!

[@galihazan8167]

You're really really good! Why don't I hear you on the radio? xD

[@aradicalia]

probably my favorite song in this entire album, but it's so hard to choose i've listened to it so many times while playing elsword i've sorta associated them with each other lmao

[@aradicalia]

***** i really like it!! there's practically no real character customization for free players besides clothes, but the gameplay is entertaining, there's always something to do, and the story is nice i really love the different kinds of fighting styles you can get with the character classes, and using combos are great too

[@asherattard8373]

i ve got a new favorite song next to hey alice

[@bluefluffball9320]

same here and I thought that acdc was good !!

[@nightshadeLG63]

...That ONE person who disliked it must have tried to like it by liking the right way up and then flipping the screen to hit the other like button.

[@lurarider6638]

So I have a thought. What if the girl from hey Alice sang that song to her sister as they took her off to an insane asylum. What if this is that asylum,, bell tower mental hospital

[@juliapakarinen7956]

I have often thought this is about living in mental institution, too, but the connection you made is just brilliant! :)

[@Victor_Merrington]

Would this be Alice's point of veiw?

[@RavenStarMedia]

That's my headcanon, that this song is from Alice's perspective while in the asylum.

[@burntchickennugget4784]

I think I’ve died and gone to heaven.

[@acertainanimetheorymakingg3875]

I like to think that the Bell tower is the singer's own form of anti-socialness that has by now spawned loneliness. So the bells warning not to fall, are just her own self doubts about people and how she shouldn't fall down or 'let down her guards completely'. In the end she finally gives in, but it's a 'long way down' or a long journey.

[@acertainanimetheorymakingg3875]

+Rachel Rose Mitchell To be honest, I wasn't sure if I should say character or singer. Anyway, I'm glad you liked the interpretation. This one was a little harder, since the end sounded a lot like suicide as did the line mentioning the other people 'falling to freedom'.

[@acertainanimetheorymakingg3875]

+Rachel Rose Mitchell Ah, I wasn't sure if the proper term was character or singer. But it's nice to know this isn't about you since I made a pretty dark interpretation.

[@midnightroseblood3906]

Ms/Mrs Rachel this song is amazing your meaning behind this song is very powerful other that hear it find meaning and find hope in ur music.. this song made me cry but also gave me hope

[@iceluvndiva21]

OK I can't be the only one who thought of Disney hunchback of Notre dame

[@branwedavies7390]

I love poor little bird,Carnival, witching hour, butterfly's, bell tower ,thorns and hey Alice (their the only ones I heard)

[@RachelRoseMitchell]

Well if you hop onto my channel you can hear a lot more ;) I think you might really like What Did We Know?, The Hollow, I Walked Alone and Wither judging by your comments!

[@HH-lo7jw]

I like these songs but sometimes the instrumentals over power the vocals

[@ItwasKindryte]

May I use this song in a speedpaint? I'll credit you and link to this video~!

[@RachelRoseMitchell]

+Kindryte Sure thing! :)

[@wito6998]

Love this song, but never heard the barking dog?

[@RachelRoseMitchell]

+Wi To Thanks! The sound is heavily affected, it's actually one of the deep gong-like effects near the beginning.

[@wito6998]

+Rachel Rose Mitchell Other than the piano, I hear some effects starting at :28, and then something that sounds like a stapler at :40, but still no dog?

[@vintagepanda9930]

I'm sorry to ask but I really love your lyrics and my friend is in the middle of her Music GCSE right now and she's struggling with the writing aspect so do you maybe have any advice I could pass onto her for writing lyrics?

[@RachelRoseMitchell]

+VintagePanda99 Oh gosh I'm sorry, I only just saw this! I think the most important thing about lyrics is to keep a mood in mind that you want to capture and write according to that.

[@vintagepanda9930]

+Rachel Rose Mitchell Okay, thanks so much! :)

[@joanna5582]

I was wondering... What do you call your fan base? Some musicians have little names for their fans like Little Bows or somethin like that I was wonderin if u do too

[@RachelRoseMitchell]

+Joanna Wrobel Hi Joanna! I'm not sure. I've been asked before and I still haven't come up with anything good. I'm worried about picking a name people won't like :P

[@lynnyx3142]

+Rachel Rose Mitchell You could always have a vote or something!

[@billcipher3717]

DUDE... JUST CALL US SOMETHING CHEESY, STRANGE, OR OVERLY AFFECTIONATE . IT'LL CATCH ON.

[@fangirlcupcake4199]

this is Draco Malfoy's theme song and nobody can convince me otherwise

[@nightshadeLG63]

HAHAHA!

[@firefox5926]

.... welll someonesw been playing farcry 4 lol

[@MasterOZero]

Pretty ghetto but oh well, haters gonna hate. I fucking love you Rach.

[@connieshaneyfelt2149]

Microwave tower builders higher than tgey need to be straight iff the brain said the ehote rabbit cheshire smile encapped in pure whute yet will remail formaldehyde not yet need theres still the raptyre Lee not a chance Jooejishrosemitchell nit a vhance..some think to highly if them selves..all the treasures returbed ALL the treasures returned the SPOTLIGHTS ON HER

[@connieshaneyfelt2149]

THE WILL OF THE HOLY GOD BE DONE IN THE NAME OF JESUS

[@billcipher3717]

ARE YOU ... OKAY?

[@Manas-co8wl]

Not anymore

[@artlessauthorite]

There's just something so poignant about the line "Nothing short of everything". i don't know what it is but I love it.