Taste Test: Suzy Callahan comments on abuse with new song, ‘To a Child’
The singer-songwriter offers up a moving, vulnerable performance.
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When Suzy Callahan sings, you feel every ounce of emotion, as if a waterfall has been turned on for the first time. Her new song “To a Child” shreds the heart into tattered ribbons; the story about child abuse is a fragile theme, a disturbing epidemic that has torn families and lives apart. The beauty in Callahan’s tale is the simplicity of lyrics, poetic and raw, and the way she adorns her words with rattling barebones. “I hear a mother calling / I hear a baby cry / Every sound is a warning / But this morning I don’t know why,” she unties on the opening line. Her voice glides across the strings with a moving precision. “You are so strange to a child,” the words fall as ash from the sky. It’s tremendous and downright devastating.
“To a Child” is lifted from Callahan’s brand new album, Not Exactly Sad, out everywhere now.
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