Lillies of the Canyon
Joe Tindley
Someday last year I woke up as always, except something felt incomplete. I was on a life victory lap – but an action-fuelled ascent plateaued when action glaciated into monotony. Grand paces blurring into near-stagnation magnified all the world’s craters I’d previously just accepted. The prison of culture. The commodification of vanity. The commodification of me. The loss of childhood. Then there’s all the beauty I forgot to acknowledge, but mar with an unshakable lens of opportunism – cause I won’t go a minute without fixation on my legacy. And finally as a counter, I pick up a rather ambitious sense of optimism, unjustified until just the last few seconds of the album.
Lillies of the Canyon conveys all of this over witchy, orchestral blends of folk, rock, jazz and various other genres, with personal highlights like Braxon, Legacy & Concrete Trail To Yarck. As it’s evolved, I’ve began to see LOTC majorly for its capacity for phenomena, such as my vision for the Braxon Short Film, which is exemplified to an extent of its glory in a mock-up of its audio & plotline below. But firstly,
Who Am I?
You’re probably wondering who I am – my name doesn’t have too much clout as of now.
I’m Joe Tindley. I’ve been a creator in every sense my whole life. From film to spirits, music has remained the centrepiece on the artistic side of things from young. I began formally creating music around the age of 8, and upto this day at 15, I remain in control of every aspect – from composing to writing to producing entirely by myself.
Currently, I’ve released 10 studio albums under my own name, though all have been restrained by a deficiency in resources, none having made much of an impact beyond locally – always having been & still being unsigned. For Lillies of the Canyon though, I’ve sunk the entirety of my life savings and more. Many who are familiar with my typical monetary stinginess have been very shocked by this decision, but it felt nothing but obvious to me. On the other hand, they’ve also seen my hyperfixation on this project for the past year and a half. After countless rewrites and endless frustration, I present Lillies of the Canyon.
Demos
Incomplete mixing & vocal production
1. (Tears) Running On The Soccer Pitch
My tears were running on the soccer pitch
For the guy his union chained from their fraternal precinct
With those lights
My own tool – such hypocrisy
Whisper regardless, “I commit tentative, it’s my fault I capitulate, always been unsteady”
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(Locked in the) fantasies fags sold me
I’ll never load their lofty fever dreams
Mmm never lively me
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Their narrative so cryptically engraved in customs to misguide me
That I’m bound to femininity
So, so indecisive he
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My tears were running on the soccer pitch
Recall a neutrality in antiques, so why’d I never live?
Shes ask why? Why do you even question shit?
I was always what I painted, erratic directed so now I’m sentenced so reclusive
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Fantasies they all sold me
I’ll never fulfil their fencing fever dreams
Mmm never timely me
Fantasies circumvent me but I’ll never be that feigning twink queen
Triumphantly I stagger, rich in melancholy
2. Vanity
Such varying slopes of vanity
Equate, embed a tree-lined hierarchy
I mounted to find I was her sacrifice
Don’t know if I’ll ever contemplate matrimony
Now headlines don’t like this, but I’ve been my canyon and
If you wanna come heal with me
Know you’re just infatuated with the product of my vanity
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And don’t bother disguising ’cause even as a sacrifice
I man this treetop and I can see
Forcing maturing is your vanity
Just like anorexia is to me (woah anorexia)
But we’re in it together – me and the sorority
It’s like a catch-up line so I guess we could sing, “we’re humanised in Vanity”
Nah it’s kinda crazy how sometimes I need these masks for them to see a human in me
Human in me?
–
AHHHHH
But that’s just the common course of vanity – right?
RIGHT??
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Grey since I was christened
Such a wonder I crave freedom
Now I’d reign the witch of vanity
Strike up myself every time I strike you
But in admiration revenue should lie my peace
Heal me
3. Rosera
Rosera’s set deep as a neural pathway
Cause it was me, it’s always been me
Never heard me sing so brazenly
But right there inscribed’s by backroad out
To the dark paths of these canyons now
Cause their flashlights cast the broadest shadows over me
Mind echoes twice as blind but
–
This is where I see
Arise above a canyon
Ridge of Mercoli
Staple of history
Every incrimination I’m more free
So drift over to the sideline
Creases of my reflection set my own heaven
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Harness my emphasis, take all of it complementary
Each podium, each convoluted call from AdSandy
Each corner scintillates still, enticing the old me
Your favourite little twink you deterred from the pantry
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This mountain’s vista’s my chance to see
Mould, veil a breakout for life replacement
I’m the only one wants free
For their wanderlust dries with the gold hillsides, abstain their true whimsy and
Force rejuvenate my form, but that’s not my vision when
It’s too boundless to grip autonomy here
–
It’s where I see
Above a canyon
Ridge of Mercoli
But now you’ll never hear me
Every time I drift down to the creek
Drift underneath the sideline
Never seen elusivity
Before the blaze reaches
You’d better confine me
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Confine me, confine me, confine me
Cause I never deserve these greens
No I never deserve my peace
Treaties just crumble under my lead
I’m black in my heart, and I blackened those trees
In that forest, Favriella was me
I’m the princess, so divisive indeed
–
Ring around Rosera ’cause it’s infinite a line
Joe, you can’t buy yourself time today, you’re dreaming
Mmm, and we’ll sing even deeper
And we’ll ravage sacred plains
Don’t even lie
Don’t be startled
Better blend vaguer than our testament ’cause
–
This is where I see
Above a canyon
Ridge of Mercoli
Rebound off flames to hear me
Every time I drift down to the creek is every time I quake
So every time you weave-r me
All my senses
–
This is where I see
You’ve no open tone bolder
You’re bound to safety
So now you’ll never hear from me
4. Dermylveim*
Broader Dermylveim
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Nullity concedes to fix bound to me
‘Xcept this lament enshrined chronology
But I yearn, oh I yearn for any commitment
To signal I’m beyond impediment
Braxon’s just an ephemeral guy but
I’m perpetually restless too, circle incessantly
Faith drought taints all paths to me
So I just tear my storm through Dermylveim
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Panorama beyond me (beyond me)
–
I been back in my canyon
Horses like as heavy as my ideals
Cage the close to idle
And each reunion’s just a union oversight
So narrow recall highlights
Haven’t I done my time?
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And did I even have my time?
Prime?
Not even an obsolete one – he never reveled a genesis so
So why do I regret what never came?
Since forever ever’s been the same (as now)
Aura: dissatisfaction
I’ve only a narrow pallet yearn replication
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And these innate male trajectories are all that arouse me
Personally time to evacuate my nativity
Cause I just overwrite all of my childhood streets
Just wish the opulence was more than a dream
It’s like I’m motivated contrary
Should the admiration rouse my zeal
Is this vanity?
No parallel story – perhaps I had no potential
Only a potential to build systems and acrimony
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These retreats with Hugh accentuate all of my vacuities
And how far I’ve strayed – cite the girls defamities
Dehumanising to the point I question whether I’m human myself
A torching every time I share him any sympathy
Hold a fine line between between planets I can’t handle weight anymore
So just send it upstream
And send the arena alongstream
To follow me
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The way it’s unnatural to hide – send it upstream
The way I was never a child – send it upstream
For me to deal, year and year once I make it to Mercoli
Down on this mind, so we churn, churn this river, churn around my destiny
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And Braxon, our mutual vice, send it upstream
The way it hurts too much to die – send it upstream
So restless I get bored of the characters i play
Known since i was 11 – wrote about the masks in my first EP
But that’s just my mind
–
To Aleksejs – such a friend we’d terrorise – send it upstream
And Vaeiroe – been bitter so long I wonder why – send it upstream
But Heigremont – tightening the crease in my mind
Deadly lifelong incline
Instinct to take my life – I’ll survive the stream
Drown them in the stream then I’ll be fine
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But Mum I know that’s not what you’d want me to say
And Voeixa – I still remember those sweet yellow days, and it mauls me that we diverged that way
But [?], I didn’t mean to make you cry
Just needed a brace then to keep me alive
You kept me alive
Now I’ve no channel to send back this high
How high?
Mercoli river don’t stop churning
Heal me
Hold my veins and let me be me
5. Hosanna In Braxon Interlude
[Recorded with my Zai/Grandma]
6. Braxon
Oh, Braxon
You really hold my retention
As you disten my destination
But you’re a true friend, no question
Not a soul but as an accolade in my compendium
Each trophied creature a reflection
It’s all disposable, so the prospects lessen
But I’ve a future, no question
So Braxon, I’ll quieten
Childhood friends know me again
Haven’t seen you since you renounced my name
So let’s fuck away the refrain
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Bridge the sprawl out West, determine this career’s false glamour
Glamourise myself, my humanity
Forfeit dignity and enchant the train line
Guess this really is my time
Roving lifeline by lifeline
It seems so real
–
So Braxon, save me a stall that we can choke in
Posterior ways hoping that I’ve a future no defect in
And I’ll wait outside, you’re booked back to back
She’ll be your fucking parade pageant and I’ll just return to the station and
Set a fucking pitchfork wall up Gellibrand
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The way you wear so salacious, then I’m jaded and to you, exploitable
Soulless so we diminish our principles and your poor girl, your poor girl, your poor girl
Devon, bar this train on lockdown
I’m just here to flee this city
Savour the countdown, cause I’m your martyr
Braxxy just fuck me
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Oh, Braxon
You really grasp so hard retention
As you disten my destination
But you’re a true friend no question
–
And you’re an old friend
And you’re some shrine that I’ll always phase through
And you’re a spiral down to every other clone of you
It’s hyperhuman
Cause every philanthropic vice blares the same window upto such effortless normalcy
But I’m your safety pin cause you can’t resist my bewitchery
So satisfactory
But I’m not because I’m a man too and this is not my lineage
I’m fucking over my whole lineage with each new colour of train
New laneways
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It’s grown so fucking cold Braxon
Extrapolate my soul Braxon
Been an asset for so long but (bro)
I forgot who I even write for anymore
7. Zai’s Interlude
8. Incandescent*
I linger lust for this lushness
Lavish in green uncertainty
A respiring elm labyrinth cascades, dome so domestically
Well, I know I could never hibernate in such peace
It’s like something wants to be lost in me
There’s just too much stake in discovery – so much magic out there
But this world estate is my home and if you think about it
Isn’t home worth holding on?
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Sky rays unwavering like the river glaze
Been long streaks of tumultuous days but this home’s worth holding on
And the Dermyl-Vorbis peaks eternally call me
Would they conscientiously hold me?
Would these canyons cushion my cascade?
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I doubt I’d ever reach that deep
When streaks of purple gleam at me
Ripples of those tulips intertwine across DP
But the slopes of Heamenfelle allure in their softness to landslide, thundering down so
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Cast a wist back to Oscattia
Zealous waves of green seep somber as the vibrance past drifts further but
The memories – somewhere down there they sustain in me
So I hold on cause isn’t home worth holding on?
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Skeletons like me tumble and wreathe through these bloodless Caladan plains
Elevate nightly to haunt in the sky
Maybe then they’ll see, yearn to have remained
Cause even through this Whitehorse, bigwig gridwork
A home is why
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Plateauing curling corridors twirl back to big Lezenvia
Where pale apex after apex rebound the flickers, where I’m only human as the pictures
Dive through vast legacies back to the perturbed vines of Tuervolgna
And reach for the Boneo side, swamp basins just so whimsical in their mystery
And that one hill still matches the pictures, so I hold on like I’m home
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The coast tides tug me back to Favriella
Pine peaks like spears to the clouds
& I wonder will I ever make it home?
Cause these trails in my mind seem to spiral and
I can’t really tell which ones are safe anymore
And if it’ll ever be worth holding on
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I wish to be forgotten like Shacklewood
I wish to have the beauty of my tranquillity drowned out by the cacophony of the world
I wish to be forgotten like Endelleira
My lushness, my inherent scene, my body fade into the adjacent solace
And Colechaws is so forgotten at the centre of it all
What a martyr
What a muse
When I think about it more, we will be forgotten
I don’t like that
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Maple Dormley, you’ve heard the worst of me
And I’d concur if been repulsed
But your linear veins, wreathed in foliage dense I’m immersed so evidently
Your residue is the pillar of my genesis so old
Just like the mountains east of high life
Like Highwheim’s my young mind
Like Oronetta prints a golden tone over heritage lines
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And there’s some new life out West among feverish greys
Jarring shipping cranes, never been so in love with something so arcane but
Ange is so sick of me dragging her there so
Maybe I’m just deluded cause I know that’s not my home
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I withdraw back to our waters
Devon Princessa never flounders the folklore of its legend
But something just feels cold (cold, cold, cold… it’s all gone cold)
–
For a moment I thought that surroundings suspended
Frozen state just emulated by life so slow
So, so slow with it’s briskness too easy to process
Dormant haze stalks me down to Devon’s old lust plains now cold to my fingertips
And I’m so in touch with everyone
The touches equate, wear and unadhere
Each valley dip’s a choir node – here I think I know what love is
Least I can spare – suspect this canyon loves me
*features ideally from Bjork & Lana Del Rey
9. Forever Interlude
10. Legacy
Never met my whole family – they’re but a legend of the village
Zai says she feels her mum Kuria pass in the atmosphere every now and then
But no morale speaks to me
Maybe its cause I chase a different legacy
Confined to grandiosity
When does it resolve
What a question
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Then mum used to tell me her history too
What a lineage to live up to
Bikes lacing wasteland and liberty
Always wondered how free a legacy by bloodstream (how free, undermine me)
Those stories were so routine when I was young but I feel bounds as they branch down
As this life pans out, Devon grows more me
What a legacy
Such literacy rooted in me
Reads like one of those bible phrases
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His last monologue
If it were to be so ordinary
Would that be the fairest of the legacy?
For that glimpse I’d have to massacre the world of me
I’m told massacre that part of me cause
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Imagine if you’d found me buried under that mountain that day
For all my mind cares is would I’ve held a legacy?
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What a question
Why wouldn’t they save me?
What a question
And I’ll never sing again
And I’ll never envision
And it withers me that I’d have never had children
Will I?
What a question
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Oh, Devon
I’d weave my footprint into each canyon fold
Scream my scripts from the Northern vistas, to each bulge and I’d
Permeate my living framework into every gaping grey
And what a headline – I’m that legacy act again
Is it vain to throw the toil away?
What a question
So I’ll ask Devon
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Don’t make me question my selflessness for leaving my legacy
I don’t donate out of vanity and
Mhmm abide a notion bane of symmetry
Such a powerhouse unpalatable is a debt so high so
I mark my holidays as labour time
Pray to my mind
That someday someone will see my legacy
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What an ambition
Cause I wouldn’t have saved me
What a reflection
Does self-destruction fall in infamy?
What a question
Do they detest to motivate me?
What a question
I’m so minute and so momentous
What volatility
So volatile a legacy
But I still paint those worlds out there
Aquire the Entropy so
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Suppose I’m golden, I’m philanthropy
And I’m the sky
And I’m the Vorbis peaks
And I’m that witchy flickering candlelight in that forest – an Heirloom that’s my legacy
I’m the remedy
Hold it when you worship me
If you’re wanting to realign, realign
Turn to my nacensy
Solitary genesis
I command my legacy
I command my legacy
I command my legacy
I command my legacy
11. The Elements Interlude
12. Concrete Trail To Yarck
Don’t label me astray just because I ran to the fields to avoid my name
Even Ange says that – so guess my home’s shifting
Well now I have one light
It doesn’t strobe
Now I’ve a restored hope
(My hope) she’s green and hopefully more human
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Cause I’m done with the greys
With my podium forced out onto the stage afar
Relative to my farmland, it’s yards glorious, inviting
Build on blind eyes – my saviour
Foundation to my protopian heart
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Try find me mid-McIntire Lane
Come leech my minor fame
Cause I outdate superficiality
Reverted back to that mentality
Now if you respired the air enwreathing me
Maybe you’d fall off the gridwork – I’m not your financial asset
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Cause I’ve grown out of the greys
Of the urban sprawl it’s monotony prying far
Tryna pierce through my wonderland, all their cameras
Flickering and uninviting
And thinking about it this canyon sprawl metaphor kinda makes me the sprawl
But I love this canyon so
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Forward I flee to Yarck
Euphoria fleets, each shot I pass but
Forward I flee to Yarck
Cause your penitentiary is erupting now
Forward I flee to Yarck
I’m not old enough for the dark
So that’s why
Forward I flee to Yarck
Then maybe West-bound if that’s my path
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Cause my clout is less and healing is my vision
Cause my clout is less and healing is my vision
*features ideally from Stevie Nicks & Mason Ramsay
* key – green = replace with feature
Braxon Short Film
As mentioned, here is one of my visions that I’ve got strong belief in.
During and before ‘Interlude 1’ is b-roll of the main character, Braxon (who is a guy of notoriety). Then denoted by ‘dialogue’, 2 mates (both guys) are on a train, and the 1st is texting Braxon, who says Braxon is best friends with the girl he’s talking to. He says he’s messing with him and encourages the 2nd to do the same – so he adds Braxon as well. They then disband as the 2nd guy gets off the train. We are then surprised when the music starts as Braxon is seen walking upto this first guy at night in the city, and throughout the song it gets quite touchy, going as far as choking. Afterwards to Braxon’s deficit, he leaves back into the night, though Braxon’s fingerprints can be seen still on him. After a monologue, we are surprised at the end after ‘fuck it’ when Braxon is seen walking upto the 2nd guy.
Prospective Cover Art
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