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Shenandoah

by Palmyra

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1.
Taxidermy 04:31
When did I learn oh when did I learn to twist my face like that Taxidermy bugs the memory of my childhood You taught me that shit like that builds character Get it off my chest my message met with radio silence How much longer ‘till I’m safe Stuck in a cycle of my own creation I’m nearing bedrock and I’m deadlock with my own self hatred You love I loathe you give I take It’s how we were raised When did I start oh when did I start to lose my grip Saturday morning how I mourn I’m trying You taught me that Im my own worst enemy Most nights my pillow turns to a shoulder to cry on How much farther ‘till I break Stuck in the backseat of my roaming daydream Im holding on to something long gone and Im suffocating My lungs are filled with yesterday It’s how we were raised There might be something in salvation There might be heaven in the moments in between our waking breaths But if yesterdays keep weighing on me There’ll be nothing left You taught me
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River Jordan 03:57
When you wake up and you wonder when you’ll fall into yourself again Troubles coming in a windfall When you try to find the funny in the bottom of a bottomless pit Kind of loving makings your skin crawl Someone said you were headed down to the River Jordan How they’ll make a fool out of you Sell you snake oil and laugh at your misfortune Ain’t it funny what hope can do? Someone said that you forgot what is important Trying on a truth that isn’t true Fix your face up from crashing on friends porches Ain’t it funny what hope can do? When you wake up and you wonder when you’ll fall into yourself again Troubles coming in a windfall When you try to find the funny in the bottom of a bottomless pit Kind of loving makings your skin crawl Someone said that you had something you were sorting through You held your breath till you turned blue You drank your snake, oil collapsed next to your doorstep Ain’t it funny what hope can do? When you wake up and you wonder when you’ll fall into yourself again Troubles coming in a windfall When you try to find the funny in the bottom of a bottomless pit Kind of loving makings your skin crawl Wake up When you wake up and you wonder when you’ll fall into yourself again Troubles coming in a windfall When you try to find the funny in the bottom of a bottomless pit Kind of loving makings your skin crawl
3.
Saratoga 04:02
I get high just to see you I got a letter written out but I know you’ll never read it I ain’t lucid I sure as hell ain’t dreaming I get high cause letting go ain’t easy There ain’t a vice in all New England that could curb the urge I keep holding on to you I keep holding on to you I keep holding on to you How’s your folks I ain’t talked to them since Christmas Does my name come up does your family forgive me I know I’m useless but I’m working on it How’s your folks, how’s your car, how’s your studio apartment in the city There ain’t a vice in Massachusetts that could curb the urge I keep holding on to you I keep holding on to you I keep holding on to you There ain’t a vice on Saratoga that could curb the urge I get high just to see you
4.
Caught Up 04:05
Sea of green, distant blue Curse the heat, keep it cool The woods keeps singing that sorrow song Comfort’s coming, won’t be long Waste all your hard-earned time right here Too far to walk back in the clear Don’t get caught up You’ll get caught up Holy flag, windblown words Double back down to Earth Patience running, I’ll stay here Spring makes another hollow year Waste all your hard-earned time right here Too far to walk back in the clear Don’t get caught up You’ll get caught up Don’t get caught up
5.
The rolling hills find quiet time But unlike the i'm not as wise The stars that shine away from here They shine away to better years The barn that creaks and shakes alone Finds company through little songs And the pond it sits ons overgrown The way it should be all alone The way it sits and stares Is a sight I can't compare  To the waving city lights My peace and comfort will deny The mountains that lay far out west Don’t communicate through contact lists And the trees that fight for sunlights kiss Are some things that we all should miss The way it sits and stares Is a sight I can't compare  To the waving city lights My peace and comfort will deny I know you might not see it now, or maybe it's the other way Or maybe I can't see much further than the sun that's setting low today But I can't find the evidence, or what i'll think five years from today All I know is that I love an open field, and that distant mountain range The way it sits and stares Is a sight I can't compare  To the waving city lights My peace and comfort will deny
6.
Park Bench 03:26
Flip a coin with your strange hands not quite woman not quite man It might land somewhere in the middle 0r somewhere out of reach And if I ever learn my name I’ll carve it in a park bench and I’ll stare Till the letters don’t look like anything I’ll stare, just like you stare with judgment and uncertainty This park bench is a sacred place though it’s far from Eden’s garden It protects me from intrusive thoughts and eyes made prone to wander And if you ever find me here, you best leave me to my thinking Or I’ll be going, going, going, gone I’ll be traveling on Cast a spell with crooked teeth not quite dull and not quite sweet It might look something like a photo out of frame and out of focus And if I ever learn my name I’ll carve it in a dogwood and I’ll cry With a weight that shoulders as broad as mine could never bear How much you carry too much you carry This dogwood is a sacred tree though it’s far from Satan’s garden It holds me like my mother and it smells just like my father If you ever find me here, you best leave me to my thinking Or I’ll be going, going, going, gone I’ll be traveling on
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Shenandoah 04:46
Oh Shenandoah I long to hear you I look away rolling river Oh Shenandoah I long to see you Away oh bound away across the wide Missouri For 18 years I swore against you
 I look away rolling river My oldest friend I tried my best to mend you Away oh bound away across the wide Missouri I left you there for snowy streetlights I walked away up to New England Oh Shenandoah I’ll come back slowly Away oh bound away across the wide Missouri I’m headed back I’ve heard you holler Your beauty grows your rolling river You’ve always had my heart from yonder Away oh bound away across the wide Missouri Oh Shenandoah I long to hear you I look away rolling river Oh Shenandoah I long to see you Away oh bound away across the wide Missouri

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We met in the Shenandoah Valley, spent a year in the Northeast, and came back to live in a farmhouse in rural Virginia. There’s something about the mountains that pulled us back home and called us to write. Making this tape was like writing a journal, with six hands documenting our collective experience over the last two years.

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released June 17, 2022

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Palmyra Richmond, Virginia

Drawing from the sounds of Appalachia and Midwestern Americana, folk trio Palmyra captures the the collective spirit of three Virginia natives.

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