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Frontiers

by Dustin Ransom

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1.
Frontiers Theme 00:21
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2.
Garden 02:58
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I, I have a voice I wish I could hear above all this noise I don't want to scream or make it into a scene The world is a storm raging outside Give me the sky I need to see blue for a moment or two Home Shipwrecked at sea A wide open space I sleep with the stars, naked and free Lost in between love That's planted inside a garden of life It's not what you think, but what do I know? What do I know? What do I know? What do I know?
3.
Miles Of Truth 04:02
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I keep waiting for the kiss of death when I open my mouth to speak There's just something 'bout the way it goes It flows right into a melody When I get out of my head, I'm going into my heart Where my body moves It's nothing like you've seen before These miles and miles of truth I used to think I could knock you down with a nice, quick jab to the heart Not once, but twice before I'd tear the whole damn ring apart And then somebody came and got me out of my way It must have been you So please forgive me as I learn to walk on these miles and miles of truth I say love love love, love is enough Love love love, love is enough Love love love, love is enough Love love love, love is enough Across the river and down the hill from the place where I was born I said goodbye one thousand times in words I never used before Like a last appeal to find what is real before it all falls through I keep beginning 'cause there is no end to these miles and miles of truth Oh these miles and miles of truth Love, love, love, love is enough Walking these miles and miles of truth
4.
I Believe In Our Love 03:21
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Your daddy said I wasn't nothing but nothing Your mama said "Leave that boy alone." All your friends said I'm just secondhand trash Even my baby sister said I should aim low I know you better, I know your heart We've got each other and that's a good start If we just keep on believing in us, I know we can make it I believe in our love I believe in our love, baby Sometimes I think I see you losing your faith In all the joy that we had, oh yeah I'll stay right by your side as long as it takes 'Cause it don't have to be like that I know you better, I know your heart We've got each other and that's a good start If we just keep on believing in us, I know we can make it I believe in our love I believe in our love, baby I know we can make it, babe I know we can make it, baby I know we can make it, babe I know we can make it, baby Yeah I know you better, I know your heart We've got each other and that's a good start If we just keep on believing in us, I know we can make it I believe in our love I believe in our love I believe in our love Oh, I believe in our love I know we can make it, babe I know we can make it, baby I know we can make it, babe I know we can make it, baby I know we can make it, babe I know we can make it, baby I know we can make it, babe I know we can make it, baby Yeah
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Millennia 03:34
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Let me tell you 'bout my new disposition Easy habits ain't too hard to break Notwithstanding this, I don't need permission To find my own way home for my own sake Bright Bright and fresh and beautiful A mind believing in its heart Millennia underneath my feet Let me tell you 'bout my new imperfection A hundred pieces fall right into place You may think I've made my own superstition Well have fun with that while I climb down the fire escape Bright Bright and fresh and beautiful A mind believing in its heart Millennia underneath my feet Endlessly the shadows move Bright Bright and fresh and beautiful A mind believing in its heart Millennia underneath my feet
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Except You 04:16
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I don't think I've ever felt this way before It comes and goes like static on a radio I don't know about the future, can't forget the past Everything I love isn't going to last Except you You break my heart in the best way Except you You tear me apart and you put me back together Little by little It's you when I'm out of my mind It's you when there's nowhere to hide It's you I took my faith and placed it in an empty stream The water came and washed it far away from me I'm so tired of needing answers, tired of right and wrong Headed for the door 'cause I stayed too long Except you You break my heart in the best way Except you You tear me apart and you put me back together Little by little It's you when I'm out of my mind It's you when there's nowhere to hide It's you You I can feel anything I want to feel And I can think about the world for myself But it's hard to leave a mess behind When it tells you it's the only way to stay alive Except you You break my heart in the best way Except you You tear me apart and you put me back together Little by little It's you when I'm out of my mind It's you when there's nowhere to hide It's you You I don't think I've ever felt this way before
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Everybody Knows Everything 03:51
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Everybody knows everything about me Everybody knows everything about me What I eat and where I sleep What I say when I don't think I say everybody knows everything about me Everybody knows everything about you Everybody knows everything about you If you've got friends or you're all alone It don't really matter 'cause you've got your phone I say everybody knows everything about you Everybody knows everything about me Everybody knows everything about me Where I live and where I went Who I paid, how much I spent I say everybody knows everything about me Everybody knows everything about you Don't believe me? Well, watch and see what they do Every like and every post Every damn time you make avocado toast I say everybody knows everything about you Nothing's too little and nothing's too much Pearls to the swine and Candy Crush Don't feel nothing, don't mind if I do As long as I don't have to talk to you Something's in the water, floating in the sea Looks like some fuckboys from TMZ There's a Kardashian holding up the flag Living the best life you wish you had Don't really matter, but it matters to you Who broke up and who's sleeping with who I've said enough, better say goodbye Gotta get home 'cause my phone is gonna die I say everybody knows everything about me Everybody knows everything about you Everybody knows everything about me Everybody knows everything about you
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Don't Need Drugs (Intro) 00:30
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Don't need no drugs to do this shit. Woohoo!
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Don't Need Drugs 02:55
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I don't need no drugs to blow my mind Don't need to get fucked up so I can have a good time I don't need no drugs to do what I do Don't need to get wasted Well how about you?
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Enough 04:42
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I can't go to the movies I can't go to a show I can't wait for the doctor Without thinking I may not come home Where is the nearest exit? Where is a place to hide If a white man packing more heat than the sun Comes to take any life he finds? Oh my God Who's going to stand for all of us? Who's still got some innocence? Oh my God Is there not enough life for all of us? Not enough love for all of us? Do you really want to kill my mother? Do you really want to kill my wife? Do you really want to kill my children? Or is there something that you lost inside? Maybe you were bruised and broken Like an animal caught on a wire Pain untouched turns into a kiln And you throw your whole heart on the fire Oh my God Who's going to stand for all of us? Who's still got some innocence? Oh my God Is there not enough life for all of us? Not enough love for all of us? I just want to live another day What do you think of that? I just want to see my baby's face What do you think of that? Who will sit and listen to the hurt? What do you think of that? Who will be the blessing to the curse? What do you think of that? I don't have any answers I don't care about taking sides I just want to come home to the ones that I love I just want to stay alive I will fly above this balance With a different pair of wings Where I see beyond these paranoid hills To an ocean of love that sings Na na na na na Na na na na na Na na na na na Na na na na na
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What They're Missing 04:27
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Everything's changing around us While we learn how to be who we are It's better than ever before, my love Even if some folks don't like our change of heart They may not understand us They may not like what they see It gets so hard when the people you love Don't know how to handle this Don't know what to do with this freedom you've found So let me tell you now I will love you if they don't know how to see you as you are They don't know what they're missing I will love you if they don't know how to see inside your heart They don't know what they're missing at all I used to feel so shameful even though I was an innocent man Playing the part of a victim of life I was slipping on through someone else's hands I'm not going to point any fingers They did the best they could do But that doesn't mean I owe them anything Just because they don't know how to handle this Don't know what to do with this freedom I've found I hear you tell me now I will love you if they don't know how to see you as you are They don't know what they're missing I will love you if they don't know how to see inside your heart They don't know what they're missing at all Baby, it's just you and me now We're going to make it through this someway somehow Now is the time to take a hold of our life Before we try and give it away I will love you if they don't know how to see you as you are They don't know what they're missing I will love you if they don't know how to see inside your heart They don't know what they're missing I will love you if they don't know how to see you as you are They don't know what they're missing I will love you if they don't know how to see inside your heart They don't know what they're missing Don't know what they're missing Don't know what they're missing at all I will love you if they don't know how to I will love you if they don't know how to
12.
Miles Of Truth (Reprise) 03:06
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I saw it written in family blood and the blood that was born before You push everything further down 'til it covers up the whole damn floor You get swept aside for speaking your mind about the hell you went through I used to be in it 'til I found my way to these miles and miles of truth I used to go where I thought I was safe, where I didn't have to build a wall Where fathers don't tell their sons that they wish they'd never been born at all And then a poison rain came pounding out pain and killed all I knew Another sign just to point me home to these miles and miles of truth You may think that I've lost my mind, that I just don't know my place Well how can you live in a house of mirrors and never see your own face? I've got a life to live, a whole lot to give before my time is through So one sweet day I hope you find your way to these miles and miles of truth Oh these miles and miles of truth Oh these miles and miles of truth
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The Devil's Table 04:55
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I sat at the devil's table with spoons I could not hold The handles were longer than I could reach The food was getting cold I could see my neighbor sitting across from me She was having the very same problem Her mouth she could not feed In the middle of this misery, a thought came to my head Something I heard so long ago, a prophet must have said "Heaven is not a place you go when you take your final breath. It's not something that you believe in. It's a different kind of death. It's when you know the past is gone And the future's yet to be. You surrender to the moment and your heart is truly free." I looked at my neighbor She looked back at me We slowly turned our spoons around and we helped each other eat The devil wiped a tear away, the first he ever cried He got up from the table and he made his way outside To a lonely weeping willow tree where buried in the ground Was the heart that he'd forgotten What's lost had now been found He held it like a baby and he watched his wings appear He'd always been an angel living in a house of fear We looked out the window and we watched him fly away I wonder if that old devil knew he'd find his heart someday I found my heart that day.

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Dustin invites you into uncharted territory with his upcoming new album Frontiers, to be released August 16th.

Frontiers is the first album of all-new music from Dustin since his 2017 album Phases. Preceded by three of its tracks released as singles - the infectiously funky “I Believe In Our Love” the atmospheric & driving “Miles Of Truth” and the beautiful and ethereal confession of faith and doubt “Except You” - Frontiers was produced and mixed by Dustin and primarily recorded in Nashville at his own Jigsaw Studios with additional recording at Sputnik Sound and Maxwell Tree Studios. As is the case with all of his recordings, Dustin played all the instrumentation on nearly every track and sang without the use of any vocal correction software.

Of the album’s title, Dustin says, “I’ve always liked the word ‘Frontiers’ because to me it symbolizes spaciousness, exploration, and discovery. I wanted to explore things that I had yet to do with any of my music and to showcase different parts of my musicality and my voice that I hadn’t before. It’s an experiential album, something meant to be listened to front to back, like a full journey as opposed to little vignettes. It’s also the most vulnerable I’ve been on an album, with much of the content centering around the inner work I’ve done and experienced over the past several years. I finally found the courage to open my heart up even farther and share my experiences in a way I hadn’t before. It’s all about newness. It’s about bravery in exploring new places, new sounds, new ideas, and being honest with myself about what I truly believe or don’t believe about myself, others, the world, and the universe. It’s a document of me regaining lost courage, identity, and strength. And as a natural outgrowth of my own journey, the record became something that ended up serving multiple purposes - not only did I find a lot of healing and truth in writing and recording these songs, I realized that the ultimate goal was to serve others with it. Above all, the record is an invitation to both myself and others to go deeper into ourselves to find new or lost places that may have been buried in there for a long time.”

True to the inspiration behind its title, Frontiers’ 13 songs create a kaleidoscopic, atmospheric, heartfelt, deeply funky, and (at times) tongue-in-cheek journey of discovery and healing. With recurring themes both musically and lyrically throughout, the album is intrinsically narrative and meant to be experienced similarly to reading a novel or watching a film. From the hazy contemplation of “Garden” to the blisteringly funky celebration of sobriety in “Don’t Need Drugs” and the gospel-influenced affirmation of love, devotion, and protection in “What They’re Missing”, Frontiers explores a myriad of different moods and settings, all firmly rooted in the present moment - with Dustin’s extraordinary musical abilities, songwriting, singing, and production serving as the guide.

Frontiers will be available on all major digital music platforms with an exclusive deluxe edition for Apple Music users, featuring an instrumental version of the entire record, an extended in-depth interview with Dustin about the making of the record facilitated by WRLT Lightning 100 DJ Adam Culver, and song-by-song commentary also by Dustin & Adam. The album will be available in a limited run of high-quality vinyl.

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released August 16, 2019

All songs & arrangements written and composed by Dustin Ransom except "I Believe In Our Love" written by Dustin Ransom and Gabe Dixon.

Mix consulting by Adam Bokesch, Jonathan Lister, Winston Harrison, and Jeremy Lister

Mastered by Joe Causey at Voyager Mastering

Album Art by Dustin Ransom & Jon Karr

All vocals and instrumentation performed, produced, engineered, & mixed by Dustin Ransom except:

Jeremy Lister & Sarah Saturday: Gang vocals on "Miles Of Truth" "Don't Need Drugs" and "Enough"

Vinnie Ciesielski: Trumpet and flugelhorn on "Miles Of Truth"

Koehn Terry: piano engineering on "Except You" and "What They're Missing"; organ and percussion engineering on "Don't Need Drugs (Intro)"

Tyler Summers: all horns and woodwinds on "Don't Need Drugs"

Mike Hicks & LaSheena Taylor: background vocals on "What They're Missing" & gang vocals on "Don't Need Drugs"

Adrian Taylor: gang vocals on "Don't Need Drugs"

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Dustin Ransom Nashville, Tennessee

Built on deep grooves, impeccable musicianship, a tasteful mixture of genres, & honest, thought-provoking lyrics, Dustin Ransom makes music to help music lovers move, groove, feel, & heal. Ransom’s dedication to creating genuine, engaging music for the purpose of guiding listeners into a deeper relationship with their authentic selves & the world around them is not only a relief, but a necessity. ... more

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