Song about moving to a new town, feeling unaccepted by family, and healing old wounds.
"All hail the dominant primordial beast"
Lyrics
Fruit and poetry pickled in a jar
Sugarwater, roses, and guitars
In the rhythm of a slowly healing scar
Old pictures, tired in their frames
Looming shadows, legacies, and names
The meaning of a day
I wander through the open chords
Wrestling with words
Painting my life's work
My failures and lessons learned
Everyone I love comes and goes
Blue December mountains sleep beneath my soul
Oh Kennesaw, how gentle is the rain
That falls upon me now as I'm dreaming of your face
The air inside is stifling, I'm in an unfamiliar place
Suffocating
I felt your burning skin reprise
In the things we did to kill the time
While the sun was dying on the skyline
We built a fire when it got dark
You and I trespassing in the park
Patrol cars circling like sharks
Hiding in the boxwoods
Climbing up the Jersey pines
In the garden late at night
Where my trauma goes to die
Ancient white oaks creak
Cold Virginia snow, fresh and soft beneath my feet
Oh Kennesaw, how did you steal away?
Between all the last calls and drunken bouts of rage
I felt a familiar friend
A songbird on my shoulder
With the words stuck in my head
