Smells Like Leaving

from Holding Pattern by Hannah Cameron

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Hannah Cameron’s third album Holding Pattern traces a flight path over her recent life, inviting us to listen as she examines her recurring tendency to wait for someone else to lead the way forward: out of a relationship, out of lockdown, back to herself. It's the idea of stasis – stuck in-between action and apathy – that Holding Pattern so bravely and eloquently explores.

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Interstate dragging on,
Lanes for days
I was wrong
When I said I could take the heat.
All the stop signs
The dotted lines
The days and hours intertwined
My tail numb on the seat.

The blink and dash
The petty cash
The cigarette that’s burned to ash -

Smells like leaving.

Sunset in the rearview
Wanna call you
Wanna hear you
Wanna send you a picture of the sky.
But there’s stop signs and dotted lines
There’s days and hours to remind me
Of all the reasons why

The fuel light flash
The mercy dash
The narrowly avoided crash
The trickle of unleaded gas
The cigarette that’s burned to ash

Smells like leaving,
Smells like leaving,
Smells like leaving.

Interstate dragging on,
Lanes for days
I was wrong
When I said I could take the heat.

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from Holding Pattern, released September 22, 2023

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Hannah Cameron Melbourne, Australia

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