Ormewood & Edgewood: Echoes Next Door

Lyrics

[Intro]
They draw a line on a map.
Give it a name.
But I walk you, Moreland Avenue.
Your asphalt doesn't read the signs.

[Verse 1]
To the west, the porches breathe deep.
Wide, welcoming.
Ormewood Park bungalows settle into the dusk.
I can smell the fresh paint on a renovated railing, from nineteen-twenty.
Hear the screen door slap shut.
A quiet, settled hum.
A place for families to root down.

[Verse 2]
To the east, the big box stores glow.
The Edgewood Retail District under a different kind of starlight.
The rumble of shopping carts on vast lots.
And the new path, the BeltLine, where the old freight trains slept.
A different kind of pulse.
A different kind of promise.

[Chorus]
But you don't know the difference, do you?
You carry the muffled bass drum from a show in the Village
right to a sleeping porch on Moreland.
You carry the headlights from the shopping center
back toward the neon glow of Mary's.
Just an echo, passing through a neighbor's open window.

[Bridge]
Before all this, there was just the streetcar's clang.
The same steel track stitched all of you together.
EAV, Edgewood, Ormewood.
Then the long quiet.
The decades of cicadas buzzing in the summer heat.
Of forgotten yards.
You held that silence, too.
Waiting for the sound to come back.

[Outro]
You're not a border.
You're a seam.
A shared vein.
Just echoes next door.