“In this body” - single

by Paola bennet

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Listen to “In This Body” before its release (Private Link / available worldwide 3.5.2021):

Paola Bennet · In This Body

LYRICS

Lightning meeting bone

Sensations unknown

Fighting a ghost, something in me

Looking to start a mutiny

I’m scared to be alone

I don’t know how to be in this body

This house that’s falling apart as I’m watching

I don’t want to let it cave

I just want another way

I don’t know how to be home, home, home

In this body

String of waiting rooms

Endless déjà vu

White on the walls

Am I awake?

Tell me exactly which pill to take

How to heal a chameleon wound

I don’t feel like myself

I know pain: clean, contained

This is something else

I don’t know how to be in this body

This house that’s falling apart as I’m watching

I don’t want to let it cave

I just want another way

I don’t know how to be home, home, home

In this body

I can’t bear all this waiting

Don’t know what’s real, hazy instincts

Say I’m fine, I feel crazy

Don’t call me crazy

Approved artist bio for immediate release:

Paola Bennet is a singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn and originally from Boston. Her music draws from folk, pop, and alternative genres, and her haunting, raw vocals have drawn comparisons to Phoebe Bridgers, Sara Bareilles, and Elena Tonra of Daughter. Always aiming for honesty, her songs range from simmering, haunting ballad to gutsy, cathartic shakers. Her past work has been featured by the likes of Girl Underground Music, Come Here Floyd, and American Pancake. Well-rooted in the New York scene before COVID lockdowns, she has opened at venues such as Mercury Lounge and SoHo House for acts including Skout, Camille Trust, and Nat and Alex Wolff. In May 2020, based on a minute-long clip of an original song, she won a competing spot to perform as part of the online 7 Layers Festival. Maybe The Light, her EP forthcoming in spring 2021, speaks to the ways in which we reach for a sliver of light, even when it seems furthest away.