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T HE BE BEL L VOL. VIII ISSUE. 12 APR 5, 2021
LIFE LESSONS IN GEOGRAPHY
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fourth year claire torak
Grove Street, Athens 1. It’s inevitable that you will miss the house when you move out, even the bathtub that never drains. 2. Take every opportunity you can to sit at the dining table with your roommates to catch up and drink a beer until two in the morning whenever you can. 3. K-pop is good; stop fighting it. 40 Watt Club, Athens 1. Never stop asking questions. 2. Always check on the drunk girls in the bathroom. 3. Music will never be a truly safe space for women, but you should never stop trying to make it one. The WUOG Lobby, Athens 1. Having a home on campus that is somewhere other than your dorm is an unbelievable gift. 2. Don’t be afraid to introduce yourself to people and start conversations. 3. Go after what you want and what you love. 4. Music really is one of the most important things in the world. Cheer Up Charlie’s, Austin 1. Dancing cures all sadness, guaranteed.
A house party, Athens 1. Don’t enter into a relationship your freshman year. Just don’t do it. 2. You can never count on the hosts to supply the drinks for you. BYOB, seriously. 3. Themed parties are always more fun. 4. Spend time dancing and talking to your friends, not trying to hit on some guy with long hair that probably hasn’t showered in a while. 5. Never take the people you only see and talk to at parties for granted. Turns out, you’ll miss those short, wine-fueled conversations with them one day, Park Hall, Athens 1. Major in something that makes you happy, even if it isn’t the most financially secure choice. You’re only in college once, study what you want. A beach house, Grayton 1. The friends that you always worry don’t care and think about you as much as they used to love you just the same. 2. Just because a friendship has changed shape doesn’t mean it isn’t any less special, important, or nurturing. 3. Being good at beer pong is a life skill, even if just for bragging purposes.
Black Balsam Knob, Brevard Max Canada, Athens 1. It is easier to feel loved on top of a mountain. 1. Sometimes just drinking a beer and playing Carrying the feeling down the hillside with you pool is better than a busier, stickier bar could is the hard part. ever be. 2. Sit in the passenger seat whenever you can, and 2. Going out is only fun when you’re with your listen intently. friends, and you set absolutely no expectations. THE CHAPEL BELL: A POSITIVE PRESS PUBLICATION
GENDER second-year ace
To the person seekingYou’re not going to find me if you look that way, Not in the place where I used to stay. It’s nothing so dramatic, I’ve left no grave behind, There’s evidence, that’s true, but it’s from another time. I’ve looked at my guts and given them a name, Whether they keep it or not, I’ll never be the same. So don’t look for me there, that’s where my shadow lies, And even it is leaving, so say your last goodbyes. To the girl I thought I was, to the woman I’ll never be, I’ve left you behind, but you’re still part of me. I’ll carry your rage, and your laughter too, And give them a new home, just for me and you. Stop looking for me in old photographs. Those memories are bright, but they lackThe brightness of my life now, the colors and hues, By just knowing who I am, I’ve been born anew. Maybe you won’t get it, or maybe you will, But I cannot spend more time standing still. I’ll give you a map, so you’ll know the way, Maybe one day you’ll find me where I stay. photo by catherine campbell
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THE SONGS THAT GOT ME THROUGH IT fourth year sydney kohne
your eyes held mine for a beat too long, the ones i’d come to love in just a few months time. i had the strangest sense of deja vu; who were we in a past life? on the last good day we had, the realization you had become my second nature hit me like a ton of bricks, the last of the hours spent together were the fading minutes of daylight on a summer day, the ones you never want to see gone time moved both too slow and too fast; in a dazed way we traveled along, disconnected without a ribbon you tied between us. i wanted to bottle up the doubt, throw it in the waves, but i was too late hard to have those conversations without hurting feelings, while desperately trying not to fall into a/ loveless state of mind, but who have we become to each other? the last time i heard this song was one day when you were gone, back when we thought that things would stay the same, but you got a new view of what your life could be away from this, away from me, and now here lies what could have been, where nothing is the same, yet we still managed to bury it too close to home and can’t seem to dig out from six feet under. but despite this heaven feels close when you are too, and the remembrance of it belongs in the louvre, down the back, but still there to bear witness to the you and me, the me and you, the us we immortalized
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RANDOM RAP LYRICS! fourth year anelson bacpak
what to do when the energies off i’ve been sitting in dark, hoping the feeling slides off cause that’s what happens, a reac tion to bein g all in your head aint gettin out of my bed, and i can’t move like the rest its just the feeling of a force that is weighing you down aint even saying im down, but nothing up is around no medication non-violence moving inside the chest i stimulate my spirit, but it’s not success
i don’t cuss in my raps, i want my grandma to listen you know I keep it correct, no coal in stockings at Christmas now how i’m corny as fuck, but every song is still hittin? and when i’m writing these verses there ain’t a syllable missing yall some lemon La Corix, when i ordered a Sprite you watered down ass rapper i wouldn’t cop for a dime and if you here listenin you grape juice to fine wine and if life is a rave then i’m laser LED lights you better take you some notes, this game i’m giving for free my socialist mentality they broker than they should be that’s Lasseter with an E, Lasseter with an E? i made it out of Perry, Georgia to the Classic City
feelin we chasin i been meditating on this many dif ferent places searching for an energy in blank faces knowin in the inner me, i see anonymous faces it’s all blank hatred around aye I heard the er ona world too big? preacher got a cause how you put your fing ? private jet big too kn s am ow he voting re dre r you en wh kid a as am d not no corpor how you dre s? ate threat ke me ep rhy tive th at Jesus piece h repeti close, strapped how you living dreams wit time ever yd of t ou nin run you w to vest kno ay that ’s on yo , you knees pray he man get in touch with divine rs yea r an fou d w in w ill i he sho protec t ard yo senator if no runnin for that and i said I was gunna quit r ca fea m nv fro re as pin -e ser at yo steps lect ’t rap better give em number four is near but I ain and yo cousins the deck all at an pin rap d yo uncles trippi cause i ain’t while riches po n of f a red pill t cket s getting fa and i ain’t writing bout shi tter and you st ruggle for mea im creatively sick ls fix a of d and in nee been loggin hours, pushin work and i ain’t get tin paid i think i’m calling a ghost im coming from the dirt when it doing the most rt sta to com itch es to get tin on the stage sw e lan a d maybe nee the homies they been grinding & logging that ’s like a beat a day i verse it and hook it so it can spin away lock the door, turn them lights off and then i star t to pray that one of these scribble visions will finally resonate with person that ’s searchin for this kinda wave that ’s making raps about rapping while working, nothins happenin and i been relaxing, researchin abo ut the use of taxes and it’s been taxing just dreamin about our future seasons i’m tryna bag it like There You Hav e It shoutout to Reason tell em bag it, hashtag it, I rip it like Rapinoe drop a music vid do it big with pink hair on fleek tho
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