i put your flowers in a jar beside my bed 
that night before i went to sleep 
thoughts of you danced in my head 
and when i woke, my room smelled sweet 

waved goodbye to all my grey skies 
and let your sunlight burn me up 
and even though i’d end up blistered 
still i couldn’t get enough 

and now it’s easier to breathe 
these spring rains will wash me clean 
i’ll take the flowers 
that we’d grown 
and plant a garden all my own (g) 

i tore down the walls you built me 
and built new ones painted blue 
but every time i saw the sunshine 
it reminded me of you 

i took the flowers from my bedside 
and the stars out of my eyes 
and as the blindness was subsiding 
i saw the flowers all had died

credits
from Flowers, releases February 22, 2019 

Music and Lyrics by Lillian Snyder 
Produced and Engineered by Mark Snyder 
Mixed by Delbert Bowers 
Assistant Engineers - Daniel Hubert and Taylor Neal 
Recorded at Jacksonville University Studio

Lillian Snyder - vocals 
Joshua Camp - keyboards 
daniel Hubert - bass 
Isabella Martinez - backing vocals 
Taylor Neal - guitars 
Mamie Lou Small - viola 
Mark Snyder - drums 
Tony Steve - percussion

Flowers

when you were young with flowers in your hair 
staring off into that great big world out there 
filled with hope that you could have it all 
what a shame that the petals had to fall 

when you were young 
when you were young 
colors shone brighter 
and life dragged on 
when you were young 
when you were young 
you never dreamt one day 
it’d all be gone 

when you were young your eyes were filled with light 
but you stared at the sun and it just got too bright 
your dreams became sun spots, colors lingering in your brain 
but all too soon they began to fade away 

when you were young 
when you were young 
colors shone brighter 
and life dragged on 
when you were young 
when you were young 
you never dreamt one day 
it’d all be gone 

and looking back on it now 
you wonder that there’s not a way to turn back time somehow 

when you were young 
when you were young 
colors shone brighter 
and life dragged onp 
when you were young 
when you were young 
you never dreamt one day 
it’d all be gone
credits
from Flowers, releases February 22, 2019 
Music and Lyrics by Lillian Snyder 
Produced and Engineered by Mark Snyder 
Mixed by Delbert Bowers 
Assistant Engineers - Daniel Hubert and Taylor Neal 
Recorded at Jacksonville University Studio 

Lillian Snyder - vocals 
Joshua Camp - keyboards 
Daniel Hubert - bass 
Isabella Martinez - backing vocals 
Taylor Neal - guitars 
Mamie Lou Small - viola 
Mark Snyder - keyboards 
Tony Steve - percussion

When You Were Young

As a child, singer-songwriter Lillian Snyder was no stranger to the world of music, hailing from places like Memphis, the Mississippi Delta and Muscle Shoals. Having grown up surrounded by musicians it’s no wonder Lilly developed an aptitude for the art form. 
Her writing is earnest and unpretentious yet worldly, evoking pensive innocence while retaining a self-assured strength.
With Snyder’s effervescent vocals and airy melodies backed by grinding guitars and chiming keyboards, her debut song “Flowers” calls to mind 1990s dream-pop bands like the Sundays as often as it does the current wave of indie singer-songwriters like Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers.