Rhododendron (Rocky Mount)

[Verse 1]

Here we are in the pre-dawn lamp light

Take it in, breathe it in

Staring into the French Broad, clear-eyed

Mm, listening

Fire flickers and the stars burn brighter

November brushes against my skin

The stillness wraps around me

Like a rhododendron, hm

[Verse 2]

Clouds shifting beyond this treeline

Looking out from hallowed ground

The dogwoods are blazing crimson

Glory all around

Smoke is thickening o'er the mountain

Wrens scatter as the cold moves in

Underneath the brush I see a lonely rhododendron, hm

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

Here's where I'll lay my head down

Just like the ones who've come before

Moss be my emerald pillow

When I make my bed on the forest floor

Here's (Here we are in the pre-dawn)

Where I'll lay my head down (Lamp light)

Just like the ones (Take it in, take it in)

Who've come before (Breathe it in, breathe it in)

Moss (Staring into the French Broad)

Be my emerald pillow (Clear-eyed)

When I make my bed on the forest floor (Listening, listening)

Here's (Here we are in the pre-dawn)

Where I'll lay my head down (Lamp light)

Just like the ones (Take it in, take it in)

Who've come before (Breathe it in)

Moss (Staring into the French Broad)

Be my emerald pillow (Clear-eyed)

When I make my bed on the forest floor (Mm, listening)

Here's (Like a rhododendron)

Where I'll lay my head down (I'm a rhododendron)

Just like the ones (Like a rhododendron)

Who've come before (I'm a rhododendron)

Like a rhododendron

I'm a rhododendron

Like a rhododendron

I'm a rhododendron

Like a rhododendron (Rhododendron)

I'm a rhododendron

Like a rhododendron

I'm a rhododendron

Like a rhododendron (Rhododendron)

I'm a rhododendron (Rhododendron)

I'm a rhododendron

I'm a rhododendron

[Outro]

I'm a rhododendron

I'm a rhododendron

I'm a rhododendron

I'm a rhododendron