Name: Merrimon Avenue
Duration: P00H02M34S
Description: This song is about my anxiety and fear in a new city and dogwood trees being the worst smelling things ever.

Merrimon Avenue

by Philip Rabenold

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This song is about my anxiety and fear in a new city and dogwood trees being the worst smelling things ever.

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It smells like death on Merrimon Avenue
Cause all the dogwood trees are in bloom.
It's only February, but it feels like spring.
Warm weather gets me worried bout everything.

Will the rhododendron blossom this July?
Will I ever have the skills to survive?

I always broke everything that I touched,
So I started to worry and I thought too much.
Nothin could ever calm my, racing thoughts.
And my head got tied in a Gordian knot.

Nothing's ever come close to untyin it.
But the Zolof helps it ain't like I haven't been tryin.

I know that there's a world, outside my head,
But according to the news there's only bloodshed.
I'd rather be in the prison that I've made.
Cause then I'd know why I'm afraid.

I'm standing at the intersection, waiting for the light to change.
So I can run across the street away from the decay.

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released May 8, 2017
Lyrics, guitar, and vocals by Willow Rabenold(regretfully).

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Willow Rabenold Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville area based singer songwriter. Born outside of Atlanta, looking for the soul sucked out of her by Suburbia.

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