Smell

from Simple Folk by Leah Callahan

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a really strange poem that somehow became a very cool song thanks to the genius of my studio band and producer...in my dream music video I'm wearing a fancy 80s outfit, looking snooty in a hotel lobby, giving dirty looks to my 20s self who never quite felt... fancy enough.

Did you know? Billionaires emit an average 8,194 metric tons of CO2 every year compared with the average person’s less than 5 metric tons. too many tons all around.

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You smell
Like money
With a forked tongue
Your silver
Keeps
The werewolves away
You smell
Like money
With a forked tongue
Your silver
Keeps
The werewolves away

The smell is real
It’s not like the earth

The smell is real
It’s not like the earth

It’s like the smell of a hotel lobby
Where they give some of us dirty looks

It’s like the smell of someone who will look the other way
It’s like the smell of something spilled but cleaned up
Very quickly so there’s no smell.

You smell
Like money
With a smell so sweet
It will make most of us
Disappear.

You smell
Like money
With a forked tongue
Your silver
Keeps
The werewolves away
You smell
Like money
With a forked tongue
Your silver
Keeps
The werewolves away

The smell is real
It’s not like the earth

The smell is real
It’s not like the earth

credits

from Simple Folk, released March 22, 2021
Leah Callahan voice, lyrics and melody; Alex Brander, drums; Alex Stern additional composition, arranging, guitar, bass, keyboard. Richard Marr, producer/engineer, Galaxy Park Studios.

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Leah Callahan

Known for experimental pioneers Turkish Delight US, critics’ darling Betwixt, and shoegazers The Glass Set, singer- songwriter Leah Callahan navigates between pop and art-rock on her 2023 album Cut-Ups, which charted in the top 200 on North American college radio NACC200.

Callahan's next album "Curious Tourist" is set to release April 29, 2024. ... more

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