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The Smell
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This starts out a bit mysterioso but ends up a good ol' rock ballad
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This is a one-man studio-based outfit which has two streams. One is to produce songs, with vocals, in a fairly conventional format, that you might expect a "real" band to play. The other is to produce instrumentals with experimental electronic sounds, the stranger the better, but hopefully still appealing. I love that virtual world full of beauty and weirdness. Perhaps that's where I'll go when I die.
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Alternative • Avant Rock
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#732 in subgenre Peak #13
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Peak #146
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August 29, 2006
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MP3 5.5 MB • 128 kbps • 6:01
Story behind the song
I've been having this wierd experience of smells persisting long after I've left the place associated with them. So I tried to think about what it could mean. THIS is the result.........
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Is it biscuits, vinegar, baked, That smell when I breathe in? Follow through to the upstairs room The brown frame hurts my chin And the vested tailor sighs As his shears hiss and scrape The experience of the dead Of the smell that has a shape Takes me back to what I always knew existed And I know there's no-one here but me and you But is it you here with me, or are those the eyes of some other Full of sadness, truth, despair, solitude? In this city made of sepia, Made of questions, doors and paste What I smell is all the future, All the past in that stuffy space Then I have a scent of ghosthood Drifting like a dream released Those expressions on their faces The starvation of the feast Takes me back etc
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Kyma
Apr 28, 2010
Not sure if I'm supposed to find this funny, but dude, this is seriously funny! But all in all really well made! KP
Mario Strack
Aug 20, 2009
A fine piece of poetry.