Music and art by Josephine's Next Million Miles
With additional vocals on track 1 by Christina

Mastered by River Everett

Thanks to james, river, caleb, mika, kian, jameson, tacobellvigil, william, pattymelt, josephine, orlo

Recorded 2024-2026 in Brooklyn, NY

Josephine's Next Million Miles is Cathryn, Dylan, Lovette and Mason

https://www.josephinesnextmillionmiles.com

Released on dawk26 records

This album was made primarily on a computer. These were some of our favorite digital tools we used.

ableton (analog, operator, amp, roar), fors pop, airwindows, meap, virtual singer, andrew reeman spectral suite, dexed, decentsampler, vocaroo, audacity, robbert van der helm spectral compressor, destroyfx plugins, ina grm tools, the new pulsar generator, ffmpeg, etherpad


Contains samples from

1. Captive Unicorns - Moonsnow
Red House Painters - Michael (Acapella) (Live 1993-11-04, Loft Berlin)

2. Steve Reich and Michael Snow interview 2016

3. Last Chance - Sarcasm
SHEWROTEIHATEYOU - my boyfriend taught my little brother "cocksucker"
The Foundations - Am I Groovin'
Compute - And They Can Die for All I Care

4. Today is the Day - Friend
The Architecture of Reassurance (1999)

5. Astrid Øster Mortensen - Gro Mig En Blomst
Christian Zanési - Trio Des Sirènes

6. Dave Bixby - Morning Sun

7. trendy dog with sunglasses - "gnarly" is a pretty cool word
RG Studios - The RG Studio Midwest Hollywood!
Sukpatch - Smooth Guys (American Mix)

8. Rodolphe Kreutzer - 42 Etudes for violin solo No. 35: Moderato E-flat major
Niccolò Paganini - Caprices for violin solo, Op. 1: No. 17 in E-flat major
Rostropovich - Bach - Bach Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 1010
Deez Nuts
Pardon Kimura- Fisherman's Blues
The Windmills - Git
Secret Shine - Suck Me Down
Belle and Sebastian - It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career
All The People - Cramp Your Style
Les Crane - Independence (A Different Drummer)

9. We want our dick back soccer chant

10. On the Waterfront (1954)

12. Lau Nau - Painovoimaa, valoa
Entertainment (2015)

13. Today is the Day - Friend

14. NEVER STOP with RITA ACKERMANN for KAI KUHNE by MARCELO KRASILCIC
cstrongman - life update

15. Lucky Star Episode 16 English Dub

16. Friendzone - Moments (Part I)
Blast Head - Head Music

With general love for...

Radioaporee

Killer7

Drum Machine Archive 1 & 2

Lullatone sample sets


============================== LYRICS ==============================

-------- 1. Fogsoaked --------

Collapse oh so many words
into a neat set
sopped up in the everyday

Jolted bright by the slightest touch
No need to bolt down
you plunge head-first, an ethic
arm the retractor and take your pick

Dredge in precious babble
cured by table salt
you came on, determined
to love with no guardrails

Scoff at his bad habits
While they held you
grin or glare it
beckons for a breakthrough

Stoke a dim ember's wisp
While it holds you
Palm or dorsum
whets the palate for a frail mew

Shocked at his bad habits
Where they held you
Grow or grieve it
still feels like this'll fall through

Snuff out his bad habits
As they hold you
Poke or prod him
to read this as a billet-doux

-------- 2. Dust Mites --------

Two black mayflys
Flit just past
A point where
Some fissure holds

A glance back
At future ransoms
Smoke and mirrors
Left me satisfied

Tiptoeing toward the side of the room
Across harmless faults, we left our prints
Debossed, you can sense
the coming day

Not a sou in sight
At last, nothing to rue, nothing's past
Took stock, netted just dust mites

Not a sou in sight
At last, nothing to rue, nothing's past
Took stock, netted just dust mites

So far from putting pen to paper
ink blots from an overflowing fountain
Endless effusive

-------- 3. Next Million Miles --------

Busy
We sing songs until we're dizzy
In the bedrooms of your city
For a year or two

Questions
You make cool facial expressions
and you never leave me guessing
if we'll see this through

Simple melodies to light the day
Throwing shadows silver black and gray

Distant drive points to an X on the map
Alidade aligned
Feel the draft with wet thumb
We're in lockstep
Now all ahead is
millions and millions
of miles of telephone lines

-------- 4. Listlessly Part 2 --------

i've taken what was left back inside
momentary clearing's taught me well until ice floes
settled in the narrows
what was left back inside


-------- 5. Sitting It Out --------

Let's remind ourselves
Crepuscular life holds true
So stir up a little dirt
But keep your ears clean
Cuz this trifle won't go on forever

How gray the street looks in the morning
Let the snow become a burden
When salty lines beckon careful footsteps

My neck cranes back
To watch that phosphene blur
Ever dashing and eluding
Flotsam turned to stone

Just a minor setback
A majority of the time
Rolling stop taken tread by lonely tread

Sitting it out

-------- 6. Sealed --------

Sealed that one away signed and addressed off to a backwater ramshack. I'll leave tomorrow. Ill fly. Ill create.

-------- 7. Summer Song --------

look out the sun is shining
it almost hurts to look at
i'll find a four leaf clover
and dream a day with no clouds

if you don't see me after school
i'll be taking the long way home
you can follow me all the way

im a chump, a fool and i will
kick rocks skip stones beside you
what dinosaur's your favorite
we both like stegosaurus

if you don't see me after school
i'll be taking the long way home
i could really go either way

it's a great day to walk in the forest
it's a great day to splash in the creek
theres a whole life stretched before us
every grey day of the week

youre in the grass
im a leaf floating
down the waterfall
its a bubble bath

(you can follow me all the way
you can follow me all the way)

id like to stay but i know
its too cold in the winter
remember where to find it
next spring we'll be much older

-------- 8. Bluff --------

A trading card came in the mail
Defoiled it half-pleased
Another month of this
Everywhen or postal who's to say

Sing it louder
Can't tell what's on my mind
Bury the lede under one uh two uh three layers
Lend a hand
Stiff neck
See it in an old light

How do we react? Upon waking up with the same line as before


-------- 9. He wore a beautiful hat --------

It's never cold it's never grey
(rain clouds follow me)
Such lovely weather every day
(rain clouds follow me)
Blessed be the womb that bore Thee
(Tongue-tied I can see )
Miracle-prone, raggedy face

He'd done himself well
The talk of the town
Out to lunch
2 feet above ground

It's my favorite feeling
Sleepwalk talking
Usual meeting
Block out 10 to 2
Like I tend to do
Cuz I'm a regular kind of guy
Go to town tonight
maybe talk to the best street light
and get called something different again

He's done it all well
A knack for the null
Back from lunch
2 feet on the ground

To put it in simple terms
I'm all mixed up
Blurred vision from oversight
Floaters in still life
But I do it
For love of the game so its
opens ear for his endless spurs

-------- 10. Collar Button --------

let me lay idle for just one more day
i'll find a warm cave in my mind to stay
in clarity wishing on a shooting star

in reverie
living through muted drawl
i hope you'll find
peace of mind

A tinge of moonlight
Casting phantoms on the wall
Serves to recall
Quiet shared stares
Between our tired eyes
Picking out glances
Of nothing in particular

-------- 11. Sludge --------

I fell when
A memory shed
And I came back into your life again
What would that be?

Nestled between impulse and stupor
Hording away secrets no one cares to know
I'll show you a new sign
Of my return into bliss

-------- 12. Rug --------

A coming and going
Of people from parts
Chained across my life like filigree
Traded in as scrap

Let's circle the water for hours
Make an eddy
To sink on in

41 stacked bricks
Portending patience
Clung on with white-knuckled
Abandon

A matter of indifference
Should the last finger turn to dust
Chasing wind

-------- 13. Listlessly Part 1 --------

bittering, the last time
you called for help
and i wasn't there to rip you up
over and over again

met on your own so i slide
so far with no accord again

-------- 14. Push Me Down --------

As we're waiting for a magnet transfer
There's one thing I could say with certainty
If you wanna lock eyes and talk about
What we would do in a zombie movie

Every chance I've been waiting for a wishing hour
Tell it on a star or an eyelash
See a cloud and I'd swear it looks like you

You're constantly beautiful
I always feel alright
When we're together wasting time

I keep all my goodbyes in a small box
That I open every time I feel blue
Heard a satellite dropped from orbit to fall close to you

-------- 15. Josephine of the Dead --------

When the zombies break into our home
Can we keep our CD collections?
Steal a walkman in the dark
Press our ears together to share the headphones

Tiptoe soft and out of sight
Is it safer to be by your side
Is there a difference in your walk
I can see you limping, did you get bitten?

No modern medicine can explain
How their limbs fall off but they always get up again
Maybe it's got something to do with our brains
We'll build a door sans window
Inside our walls of dirt
We'll make zombie faces
And zombie noises too

-------- 16. Never Bothered --------

Where you stand what you need what's that? Very little
Not standing by, full attention paid, red-faced
Live for here