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Nettles

8:03southern gothic Album Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You 2025-08-08

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Description

The race to adulthood sometimes ends not with a victorious finish, but with an explosion, after which all that remains is to wait for dawn under the blinding light of hospital lamps. The song revolves around this strange combination - youth that was in a hurry to live, and time that suddenly became viscous, almost immobile.

There are no beautiful scenes from movies here: only Tennessee Street, where instead of romance there is dirt and humiliation, but even in this truth there is something important to be heard. The whole track is held together by a fragile hope: that closeness is stronger than pain, that even in the slowest second you can find a reason to continue.

Author: Hayden Anhedonia

Producer: Hayden Anhedonia

Mixing: Hayden Anhedonia

Mixing atmos: Prash Engine, Earz Mistry, and Lavar Bullard

Mastering: Matthew Tomasi

Banjo, synthesizers, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano, vocals. Sound engineer: Hayden Anhedonia

Violin/banjo/pedal steel guitar. Sound engineer: Ben Tanner

Instruments:

Banjo, synthesizers, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, piano, vocals: Hayden Anhedonia

Violin: Donny Carpenter

Pedal steel guitar: Todd Beene

Banjo, acoustic guitar: Dillon Hodges

Organ: Steven Colyer

Electric guitar: Matthew Tomasi

Drums: Bryan De Leon

Visualizer: Hayden Anhedonia

Lyrics and translation

Original

We were in a race to grow up
Yesterday, through today, 'til tomorrow
But when the plant blew up
A piece of shrapnel flew and slowed that part of you
The doctors gave you until the end of the night
But not 'til daylight (Not 'til daylight), not 'til daylight (Not 'til daylight)
Time passes slower in the flicker of the hospital light
I pray the race is worth the fight
Made a fool of myself down on Tennessee Street
It wasn't pretty like the movies
It was ugly, like what they all did to me
And they did to me what I wouldn't do to anyone
You know that's for sure
[Chorus]
Tell me all the time not to worry
And think of all the time I'll, I'll have with you
When I won't wake up on my own (Wake up on my own), wake up on my own
Held close all the time, knowing I'm half of you
[Post-Chorus]
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