Name: Magnolia
Duration: P00H04M55S
Description: "Magnolia" is the first single off Melanie A. Davis' upcoming record, "Honey Locust." It's a meditation on hometowns -- Midwestern ones specifically, though any region will do -- and the delusional, nostalgic romanticization they often acquire through the passing of time.

Magnolia

by Melanie A. Davis

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"Magnolia" is the first single off Melanie A. Davis' upcoming record, "Honey Locust." It's a meditation on hometowns -- Midwestern ones specifically, though any region will do -- and the delusional, nostalgic romanticization they often acquire through the passing of time.

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Magnolia blooms peeking their heads out a little too soon
Roll me up tight - yeah, I thought we might find something to do
Foothills of Appalachia racing back to smile back atcha
falling slowly fast
If you died today, where would you go?
And by the way -
have I told you nothing lasts?

Watching the smoke from your cigarette dancing
weightlessly on air
Peripheral dreams, bursting at my seams
but when I look, I don't appear to be there
We watched the fire balance on telephone wires
'til the windows yawned in the heat
Your drink was stronger than that in my cup,
but I smiled as though you were me - hm

Just because it's home doesn't mean it's mine
Feelings made of tone to be perceived:
'No, I'm fine'
I tried hard to love you the way that you like
while I watched you wrestlin' with both hands of time
Oh, the freedom to not wonder
and to be so heartbroken and wise

Hot summer skin and a long day of nothing,
so I turn my eyes toward the clouds
Just passing through, as I'd like to be too,
kicking up dirt as I run out of town
Petals reaching toward the sky in an embrace of kudzu vines -
the blossoms saved from the beasts
Little towns turned into shells
of bricks and bones and dried up wells
But it's what you know at least - hm

Just because it's home doesn't mean it's mine
Feelings made of tone to be perceived:
'No, I'm fine'
I tried hard to love you the way that you like
while I watched you wrestlin' with both hands of time
Oh, the freedom to not wonder
and to be so heartbroken and wise

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released June 21, 2023
Music and lyrics by Melanie A. Davis
Vocals, BGV, and guitar by Melanie A. Davis
Lapsteel by Fate McAfee
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Fate McAfee

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Melanie A. Davis Murray, Kentucky

Singer-songwriter from western Kentucky. I sing about me, you, us, and the wild weird world we're currently living in.

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