Name: The Ghosts of Girard Avenue
Duration: P00H04M56S
Description: The verses were written for a friend struggling with a heroine addiction and the rest is about the methadone clinic at 7th st. And Girard ave in Philadelphia

The Ghosts of Girard Avenue

by Elissa Janelle Velveteen

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The verses were written for a friend struggling with a heroine addiction and the rest is about the methadone clinic at 7th st. And Girard ave in Philadelphia

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My love was too late
This song is for you when you are dead
I hesitate,
when I should speak clearly and not falter
Drowning in inches of water
And so it goes. . .

The Ghosts on Girard avenue
The Ghosts on Girard avenue
Cas-cascade-cascading failures have led to this juncture and left you marooned
They hang their heads not for shame or for pain
It's the pure ecstasy dragging them to the terrain

Love's never in vain
But your veigns are pumped with opiate concrete
I repeat and repeat and repeat
And beg and plead

The Ghosts on Girard avenue
The Ghosts on Girard avenue
Cas-cascade-cascading failures have led to this juncture and left you marooned
They hang their heads not for shame or for pain
It's the pure ecstasy dragging them to the terrain

Are you sleeping?
Are you sleeping?
Brother, Mother, Sister, Lover
Are you dreaming?
Are you drowning?
Is anybody there?
Is anybody there?
Can you hear me?
We miss you, we love you, come home

They're the Ghosts on Girard avenue
The Ghosts on Girard avenue
Cas-cascade-cascading failures have led to this juncture and left you marooned
They hang their heads not for shame or for pain
It's the pure ecstasy dragging them to the terrain
The Ghosts of Girard Avenue,
Pulled down by their limbs
They hang their heads
Are they already dead?

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released July 16, 2019
The Ghosts of Girard Avenue was written and performed on guitar by Elissa Janelle Velveteen accompanied by Agnes Kline on the cello, recorded and mixed by Zach Brown in Trenton New Jersey.

Photo by Randy Melick

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