The singles off of Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Stream/save/share/order here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/mb069

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Skyway Man - Flight of the Long Distance Healer (Singles)

"Long Distance Healing" is the first single from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://MamaBird.lnk.to/MB069

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace & Clark Williams  
Recorded at Montrose Studios, Moongate & The Peach Tree
Mixed by Jake Davis
Engineered by Adrian Olsen, Kai Welch & James Wallace
Produced by James Wallace (Skyway Man)
Mastered by Eric Broyhill
Single Art Painting by Steve R. Dodd
Single Art Layout by Eric Loeffler

/// Players:

Vocals, Keyboards, Synths & Piano: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Kelly McFarling & Rebecca Marcyes
Drums & Percussion: Pinson Chanselle 
Bass: Cameron Ralston
Electric Guitar: Alan Parker
Trombones: Matt Jefferson
Trumpet: Kai Welch

/// Lyrics:

Willow, sing for me
With shaky fever, stranger than a
Long gone harmony
Pulled from the edges of old mankind

Tell me the story
About the morning I was born
Don’t leave anything out
That I could cling onto

Left under your weeping lace
My legs gave out underneath me
Right now, the effort it takes just to raise my head
Mother, it’s more than I have in a day

Willow, scream for me
Open your wings wider than the sun
I’ve forgotten to fear the fire I was forged from

Wildflower pillow
Come see how weak I’ve become
Bring warmth to the cold moving shiver across my spine

Oh on the way to your dream embrace
My eyes start to deceive me
I pray to the faces in your floating leaves:
Show me what future remains

Daylight is breaking
Hear the bells’ chaotic ring
There’s a gun on my hip
I must be dreaming, I smile

Are you right here with me?
Is that your whisper in my skull?
The farther it came calmed the horror of changes in time

Go, I’ve already seen my fate bent through the light of your branches
Until my body releases and I drift away, I’ll cling to your canopy still
Into your canopy still
I cling to your canopy

“Old weeping willow, got cut down years ago
I would show you the way there, but the path is overgrown
That old weeping willow got cut down years ago!
I don’t know, but that thing you found might guide us home.”

Flight of the Long Distance Healer

Long Distance Healing

Skyway Man - Long Distance Healing

"Dumb Hope" is from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', which is out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB069

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace
Recorded at Montrose Studios & Moongate
Engineered by Adrian Olsen & James Wallace
Mixed by Jake Davis
Produced by James Wallace
Mastered by Eric Broyhill
Single Art Painting by Steve R. Dodd
Single Art Layout by Eric Loeffler

/// Players:

Vocals: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Molly Sarlé
Drums & Percussion: Pinson Chanselle 
Bass: Cameron Ralston
Electric Guitar: Alan Parker
Keyboards & Synths: James Wallace
Piano: James Wallace
Additional Percussion: Miles Lassi

/// Lyrics:

If ya got dumb hope at the beginning of your journey
If that’s you holding burning pieces of a funeral shroud
If you know that there’s no future, just a story biding time till found
I wanna show ya something now

If big man say he’s got your number but won’t take you under
And he bringing heavy weather, harder than when ya started out
That day you awoke facing your own shell, were you floating or lying on the ground?

Take a drive with me at dawn to peek at the fault line
To ease the wear upon our bloodline
To look at things we haven’t lost or found
When you stared into the doom through your teary, blurred eyes
And let the edges turn to shoreline
For a moment everything was whitewash and sound
Miles below us now

We are the ever-driving, never-arriving crowd
Hurried to a lonely outpost station, chasing ancient sound
We alone can see the glory of the nightmare lying on the ground

Is that the answer to the game just as sure as the tree grows?
Or maybe what the hell do we know?
Some folks say anything to break the silence down
I hold onto the doom ’cause you’re the one I must follow
And even if my hands were hollow
I’d still carry you through the wild shit I’ve found
Inches above the ground

Dumb Hope

Skyway Man - Dumb Hope

"Winds" is the third single from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB069

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace
Engineered by Adrian Olsen, Kai Welch & James Wallace
Recorded at Montrose Studios, Moongate & The Peach Tree

/// Players:

Spoken Word: Dr. James Oliver Cyr 
Vocals: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Kelly McFarling & Rebecca Marcyes
Drums & Percussion: Pinson Chanselle 
Bass: Cameron Ralston
Electric Guitar: Alan Parker
Keyboards & Synths: James Wallace
Piano: James Wallace
Trombones: Matt Jefferson
Trumpet: Kai Welch

/// Lyrics:

CYR: I parked my van
I just wanted to walk into the good quiet of nature
And enjoy the beauty, the serenity of the moment
About 50 yards off the road
I came upon this huge grandfather Elk that was just lying there

I was already dying
There was nothing to see
When the winds came up
When the winds came up

I did what I was told to do:
Stare forward and run
When the winds came up
When the winds came up

And the glory of the nightmare
Written inside of an aurora borealis
Unwound from the casing of love
That came from your eyes
Like a century flood
When the winds came up

Broadcasted my station
No message returned
When the winds let up
When the winds let up

If you want, I could hold to you
If you ain’t already passed on
When the winds let up
When the winds let up

And the glory of the nightmare
Written inside of the day I buried Alice
Into the colored jetstream glove
At the end of flight
Under engine song
Oh the boredom!
When the winds let up

CYR: I don’t know what you know about the dimensional shift, “The New Golden Age”
The antlers were a gift from the spirit of Elk
To give me strength and endurance
During the times that are coming on this planet

In truth, I am scared to do
That which might change my heart
If the winds let up
If the winds let up

Always already dying
Never nothing to see

Winds

Skyway Man - Winds

"The Holding On" is the second single from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB069

Watch the accompanying short film: https://youtu.be/eMlnFgnw-Dw

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace 
Recorded at Skyline Studios & Moongate
Mixed by Jake Davis
Engineered by Miles Lassi & James Wallace
Produced by James Wallace
Mastered by Eric Broyhill
Single Art Painting by Steve R. Dodd
Single Art Layout  by Eric Loeffler

/// Players:

Spoken Word: Dr. James Oliver Cyr
Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards & Synths: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Rebecca Marcyes
Drums: Sam Doores
Bass: Danny Vitali
Percussion: Miles Lassi

/// Lyrics:

CYR: I’ve been living in the wilds for 20 years now
Hardly speaking to anyone

How far did you stumble leaning on a ghost?
Now your eyes fix on the ceiling
Here comes a long lost feeling

Did drifting on turn from courage
To a wilder form of pleading?
Does the holding on keep you from healing?

Don’t ask why the time goes still
Don’t try to close the void wide open, child
I know you probably will
Make it last until

The old moonlight strikes your counter 
Slides down your window sill
Grabs hold of the lines on your hand uncurled
With light from the craters of a different world

Where husks of days wasted
Lay where the tide receded
When holding on kept you from healing

I’m trying hard, my friend
You know I don’t like feeling this for you
Burn off your selfish ends
Take off that shell inside your shell
And start receiving
You are now grieving
You’re the sound of one heart beating

The Holding On

Skyway Man - The Holding On

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