Band: Lorna Shore
Song: “Glenwood”
Director: Dylan Hryciuk
Album: I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me
Release Date: September 12th, 2025
Label: Century Media Records
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Singer Will Ramos shared of the story behind the song:
“This song has been a very long-time coming for me. In my teens, my father and I never had a great relationship. We’ve had countless fallouts and it got to the point where we hadn’t spoken to each other in many, many years. I’d written songs in my teens and early 20’s about him and my frustration but nothing really helped fill the hole I felt inside. There were just too many mixed emotions. As time went on, I came to realize that, despite my anger, all I ever really wanted was to go back to the home I grew up in. For that reason, I decided to knock on his door and try one more time to get in touch with him.
The day I saw my father (for the first time in who knows how long), I quickly realized something. He wasn’t the same person I remembered. He’d aged, had wrinkles, and a full-head of white hair. The tree that I remembered growing up next to was gone. The house inside was the same as I remembered but… older… dustier; and it felt… strange. As time seems to fly by for me, it also does for my father. And in all my parting, I never stopped to think about how much time actually went by. I spent my youth being so prideful and stubborn. I never even considered that as I was aging, so was he. I’ve had countless chances to fix things but wasn’t brave enough to actually do it. And now, I will never be able to get that time back. My house wasn’t the same, my father wasn’t the same. And sure enough, I wasn’t the same either.
I wanted to capture that feeling when I wrote this song. It was so incredibly bittersweet and took a lot of courage for me. On one hand, I am so happy that I was able to make amends, on the other, I was so upset that it took me as long as it did.
Glenwood Ave was the name of the street I grew up on. I remember my father always telling me, ‘I’m the tree, you’re the branch.’ The references to the oak tree missing are symbolic for the relationship and time we lost together. To be honest, there are countless references in this song that only the people who knew me growing up would understand. As you can imagine, this song is one I hold very near and dear to me.
My only hope is that when people hear ‘Glenwood’, they can think about their own lives and the people they’ve pushed away and ask themselves, ‘is it really worth being upset for this long?’ Time is constantly fleeting, just as we are as well. I believe all we really want is to go back to that special place – a place where nostalgia triumphs over trauma; a place that we can call home.”
I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me track listing:
- “Prison of Flesh”
- “Oblivion”
- “In Darkness”
- “Unbreakable”
- “Glenwood”
- “Lionheart”
- “Death Can Take Me”
- “War Machine”
- “A Nameless Hymn”
- “Forevermore”
