Ashes in the Medicine Cabinet

by Dust Hunny

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Hi, I'm Dust Hunny, I'm glad you're here!
"Ashes in the Medicine Cabinet" is the culmination of a years-long battle I have fought behind the scenes. While things have generally looked pretty normal on the surface, I have been struggling intensely at times with ocd, health anxiety, and death anxiety--the result of years of compound grief that was never properly processed.
"Ashes" is a collection of conversations I've had with myself in the last year and I wrote it to serve as a reminder for why I'm doing the work to heal and be fully present in my life again, and to hopefully give courage to others who are fighting my same battle.
Time is going to pass whether we're present for it or not.

In a nut-shell, this song is my ode to overcoming the fear of death.
If you're a fellow sensitive soul who has never felt free from the burden of understanding mortality, then this is your song, too.

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Is it worth it to say what's on my mind
Feels so contrived to be singin about time
Years went by and I slept through life
Still I feel twenty-five

Is it worth it to put it all on the line
Am I able to leave the past behind
Is there time enough to do it right
Hope I make twenty-nine

Ashes in the medicine cabinet
Make it harder to forget
Years are short and the days aren't long
Time it keeps ticking on

Are we here for a purpose I don't see
Is there some meaning I'm missing
Is there some great out there
Place we're meant to be

Through my seeking will I find
An answer to satisfy
My wonderings about life
Or am I wasting mine

Ashes in the medicine cabinet
Make it harder to forget
Years are short and the days aren't long
Time it keeps ticking on

On and on
Long after we're gone
On and on
On and on

Ashes in the medicine cabinet
Make it harder to forget
Years are short and the days aren't long
Time it keeps ticking on

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released September 8, 2023

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Dust Hunny Cincinnati, Ohio

Dust Hunny is the indie folk solo project of Ivory Jane Snow and a side project of the alternative rock band Sungaze, which features Snow as a singer and keyboardist.
Featuring heavy slide guitar, confessional style songwriting and stripped down yet still dreamy arrangements, Dust Hunny presents a new, more personal, side of the Sungaze universe. ... more

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