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Echolocator
03:36
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I’ve been looking for love ever since I lost my way
Been listening for sounds I know, familiar phrases
Is there a message alive in time to save the day
Let it resound over the land and loud
Echolocator oh-oh-oh-oh, Echolocator oh-oh-oh
Follow me through my life
I’m a new person now, a new version somehow
But it’s the child in me who holds the master key
What is this world after all and who can I say is calling
All the way across the plane
No other love, I’m waiting for you
No other love, both night and day
No other love, my heart is sound proof
You ride along the wave, you drip inside the cave
You steal upon the wind, I’m waiting til the end
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Get Out of Town
04:16
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We walked for days at first through death and through birth
The years were counting toward but none from just before
Our senses tight and keen, the years of sharpening
We used to be so soft to morph into machines
Get out of town as soon as now, get out while there’s still time to cut loose
Careful round the lake and everywhere you go
You’re in the movie now, did you already know?
Hold me now, I’m freezing
Help me now, I’m reeling
Who has ever felt so alive
Is nature so unkind to linger so discreet
Then open up so wide flooding every street
So granular the dream, each ray of light a song
Each mote of dust upon, I sing to carry on
Get out of town as soon as now, get out while there’s still time to cut loose
All the world’s a stage, the patterns never change
We seek with wild desire through water and through fire
They say there is a town further miles down
Through the scope you’ll see the light of future dreams
Each road a ridden path, the trees on either side
The stars are still our guide in this lonely aftermath
Get out of town as soon as now, get out while there’s still time to cut loose
I dream of olden times, I dwell inside today
Is it fortunate to die, sufficient to survive
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Oxygen
03:24
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Deep as the water, slow motion and silent
Suspended in blue light, this whale is a pilot
Fish darting round, such small memories
Here and then gone, each one on its own
I gotta know how to start again
A little love and oxygen
Deep as the water, no sign of another
Cautious and floating, my mind in the gloaming
Remember the days, the voice of my mother
Echolocate me, I’m here in the water
Memories decorate and haunt me
Separation of time unknown
Leaves me searching in vain for miracles
The kind so sweet and mundane
Deep as the water, slow motion and silent
Suspended in blue light, this whale is a pilot
Fish darting round, such small memories
Here and then gone, each one on its own
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Without Even Asking
03:13
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I've been thinkin it wasn't the drinkin
That put me in the state I was in but where was the leavin
Runnin the rat race even with guitar cases
All that living out and in, what kept me down
Anne stopped calling, I stopped trying
Pushing notes under the door like something's dying
It’s just a restless evening, I've got a bottle with me
It complements that easy feeling, got a long way to go
I've been falling, without warning
My mouth was full of the words of a fool, but there's no recalling
Wondering my way out, working my way through
Yeah I'm telling these far out stories but only to you
Anne stopped calling, I stopped trying
Pushing notes under the door, like something's dying
It’s just a restless evening, I've got a bottle with me
It complements that easy feeling, got a long way to go
I can't relate, it's just blue and gold
Just blue and gold in a lifted body with a drifting soul
And my every day is like an avalanche
Almost every day has been catching me up, without even asking
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Stuck in a Rut
04:01
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I’m stuck in a rut, I can’t run away
Called around but nobody could say
I medicate, it’s the fire I know
Unlock the door and I light out alone
When the lighting is right, cellophane
Stepping through the medicine
You don’t walk alone with cleavers
Flowers steam in a delicate tea
And didn’t we know back in the day
Didn’t we know the root to take the pain away
Waiting now, in the ground
Life you know, life from the sun
Are we stuck in amber
Are we unable to remember
At the heart of it, are we getting by, only getting by
At the heart of it, are living in a, living in a
Meadowsweet, nettle sting, hawthorne at the edge of spring
Like a lover’s game, lover’s game, lover’s game, lover’s game
Homebound, half light, first star in the evening sky
Another day nearly done, another day of life in the sun
It takes a long time to wait when you're stuck in a rut
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Favorite Stone
02:58
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You can count on me, you can count on my rock and roll
Sure as sun will shine to beat the band
So delicate and new, it was the early side of June
Big mama roll the ball across the sky
My favorite stone
My favorite stone
You can follow down to the bay
Every river knows the way
Polish your mind to silver from the gray
When you reach the ocean shore
I will intimate some more
Big mama roll the ball across the sky
Still is life in a wooden frame
Still is life a horizon game
Baling water from my throat
The salty sting of everything
You can count on me, I’m here naturally
Like a forest in your heart I grow the trees
Pine needles soft in spring, to you my subtlety will sing
Big mama roll the ball across the sky
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The Lonely and the Lean
02:58
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Linger on the path while holding younger years and fallen fears
Jump like crickets in the grass
No pattern or control it seems and longer than the older dream
Stretch my arms like trees
It’s no wonder I came clean
Linger on the path along the edge inside the orchard
Free as birds upon the breeze
Cast a shadow over me and memories they shake the trees
They make a tremble
Wind that falls the apple, no happy ever after
It’s no wonder I came clean, call me the lonely and the lean
Voices call like waters rise, an ache that’s deep and tenderized
Drifting back to language lost, losing sleep like sleep has cost me
Moments closely savored, doing me a favor
It’s no wonder I came clean, call me the lonely and the lean
Call me the lonely and the lean
This animal this human one pulsing from the nearest sun
Pushing days through summer haze each story cuts a different maze
Before we crash upon the ground and make a different sound
Linger on the path while holding younger years and fallen fears
Jump like crickets in the grass
No pattern or control it seems and longer than the older dream
Stretch my arms like trees
It’s no wonder I came clean
Call me the lonely and the lean
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My One and Only
03:47
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Set loose on the wild ground, orphan boy since i was born
Those days just hazy and long, there’s only dreaming when you’re poor
Now my mind is running, my heart is racing, my heart’s in danger now
I used to carry bags of down for everyone I’d meet
This world I’m living in so full of suffering and sin
Oh yeah, my one and only, oh yeah, my one and only
Blackbirds on a live wire, sentries on these city streets
These days just waves on the shore never ending at my door
And if you catch me looking, like a stranger lurking, for a sign I might recognize
Every woman passing by like a mother in disguise
This world I’m livin in take me back where I begin
Oh yeah, my one and only, oh yeah, my one and only
Oh yeah, my one and only, oh yeah, my one and only
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The Peace of Things
03:28
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We’re running out of ways to carry, running out of ways to care
Dragging on the line, we drag the breeze
Comes from living in a world, I call it drowning in a dream, I care
Come into the light you radiant being
When you hold me, I feel it in you
The pain of hope, yeah, the peace of things, yeah
Oh babe, I feel it too
The rage that flows, yeah, the peace of things, yeah
It’s the ribbon of the road to follow, nowhere else to go, I care
Raven in the snow, the light compares
If you’re strong inside the hip I call it strong inside the knee, I’m free
The rhythm is the why, the way, they wanna be
I will always wait for you
Even with the lengths I go
Even if the fates are thrown
Do you know the way back home
Do you know the way back home
I’m out of running ways
Do you know the way back home
I’m out of running ways
Do you know the way
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Message of My Love
04:37
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Get around, I got a long way to go
But I’ve come a long way, see how the tree’s grown
I might be late for the show
Time bends like a twist in the sequence
It’s hard to lose what you learn, It’s hot when the forest burns
On every acre, in every field alone
Feel it all around, feel it in your blood
Walk upon the ground, keep your eyes toward the sun
Wonder what that feeling is
It’s a message of my love, ooo
Message of my love, how the light gave away
A message of who we are and what conveys
Hold on, hold on we’ve only just begun
In every field alone
We’re all love crazed, pushed into the cities of haze
The social mores anymore just keep us further away
We hold grief in our lungs, I’m calling every good wish home
On every acre, in every field alone
Feel it in your arms, feel it in your legs
Vessels of your heart, enigmatic spark
Wonder what that feeling is
It’s a message of my love ooo
It’s the center of your heart
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Joy Mills Band Seattle, Washington
New album Echolocator out 1.24.20
Urban country and roots from the Pacific
Northwest.
"Seattle’s liveliest country-flavored act since Neko Case." - The Stranger
“Call it lilt with an edge.” – Leicester Bangs (UK)
“Organic country…both delicate and edgy… For the lo-fi country enthusiast.” – Maverick Mag (UK)
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