Sara Lov - "A Thousand Bees"

American singer/songwriter Sara Lov had an eventful upbringing. She was kidnapped (along with her brother) from her LA home by her father and was taken to Israel for a decade before being returned to the USA. It was actually that event and the long custody battle that turned her towards music... as an escape. Some of her songs were inspired by those events in her life. After some time in duo 'Devics' she released her first solo EP and debut album in 2009. The album 'Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming' features this song "A Thousand Bees", which has been constantly played on Bitter FM since the first time I heard it. There have also been some email enquiries to the station about the song, which tells me that it has a universal appeal. I am sure this song is about her father and is possibly a letter of forgiveness. Unfortunately the story of her upbringing took another turn, when she was 16 and already reunited with her mother, her father took his own life. So the lyrics (as below) do seem like some kind of forgiveness.... but that is just my view.
A beautiful song from an underrated artist. Spread the Lov.



(Lyrics)
How sweet is the revenge
When you don't want it anymore?
How meaningless the defense
When you're not fighting anymore?

I've given up the wanting,
How it seems to want me still.
Like lovers wanting others,
Dancing on the lovers' hill.

Photographs, beautiful photographs.
Can't go back, can't take it back.
Photographs, beautiful photographs.
Can't go back, can't take it back.

To see a younger girl like me
With eyes all wide and wandering,
Will she awaken just like me?
A thousand bee stings covering
A heart that doesn't need their wings.

You stung me, you stung me.
You stung me, you stung me.
You stung me, you stung me.
You stung me, you stung me.