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The Hours

by Paola Bennet

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THE HOURS is a song born of this current moment of isolation for so many of us, me included. But it also reaches back to other times I’ve been isolated at home: during depressive episodes, and a long miserable stretch of unemployment. I wanted to show both the up and down sides of being home so much: maybe doing things you wanted to, maybe slipping down a hole of obliterated weekdays and numbed emotions. Levity and difficulty can, and often do, coexist.

In the spirit of actionable help, I will be donating 50% of proceeds from this song to the YWCA’s COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund. The YWCA provides shelter, childcare, and domestic violence programs for vulnerable women and children, who are even more at risk during the pandemic: www.ywca.org/covid-fund/

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Heavy and grey
I can’t possibly write one more song about rain
Ten day old sheets
Why bother to leave them when there’s no one waiting?

Woke up at five
Let my candles burn past the suggested time
I don’t think I’d mind
Maybe something aflame would make me feel alive

I don’t know
Where the hours go
I don’t know
What swallowed me

Like a coin in a gumball machine

Sometimes people call
And I talk pretty loud ‘cause I feel pretty small
So they don’t catch the fear
Rattling, hung round my neck
It’s my own goddamn fault

Crave a sound besides me breathing
No, I don’t count the sirens screaming
I want out

I don’t know
Where the hours go
I don’t know
What swallowed me
I don’t know
Where the hours go
I don’t know…

(Chorus x2)

Like a rowboat at sea

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released May 1, 2020

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Paola Bennet New York, New York

Paola is a singer-songwriter from Boston, MA & based in Brooklyn, NY. Her intimate folk-rock has garnered praise from Mahogany, 7 Layers, and Grain of Salt Mag. With haunting vocals and a commitment to emotive details, she has drawn comparisons to Phoebe Bridgers, Sara Bareilles, and Daughter. ... more

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