Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's the new short film from Skyway Man, featuring "The Holding On", the second single from the new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: mamabird.lnk.to/MB069
/// Film Credits:
Director/Editor: Drew Bourdet
Director of Photography: Hayden Mason
Associate Producer/Actor (Research Assistant #1): Lauren Rourke
Grip/Electric/Actor (Research Assistant #2): Paul Helzer
Actor (Wife), great musician & filmmaker: Lovage Sharrock
Actor (Dr. CYR), beekeeper, thespian, public land trust advocate: Will Rogers
Actor (Son): Elias Rhodes
Producer/Actor (Skyway Man): James Wallace
Producer: Ryland Walker Knight
Wardrobe Supply: Kristin Klein
Set Dresser: Dana Lindstrom
Visual Effects: Jamie Niebuhr
Titles: Teddy Blanks
Color: Derek Hansen
Production Company: Capsaisinco
Coloring done at AFX Creative
Kodak - 16mm Film Processing
Special Thanks - Kevin Moran, 2200 Studios, Vacation SF, Cody & Katie Rhodes, AV Geeks
/// Song 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
/// 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
Here's the new short film from Skyway Man, featuring "The Holding On", the second single from the new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: mamabird.lnk.to/MB069
/// Film Credits:
Director/Editor: Drew Bourdet
Director of Photography: Hayden Mason
Associate Producer/Actor (Research Assistant #1): Lauren Rourke
Grip/Electric/Actor (Research Assistant #2): Paul Helzer
Actor (Wife), great musician & filmmaker: Lovage Sharrock
Actor (Dr. CYR), beekeeper, thespian, public land trust advocate: Will Rogers
Actor (Son): Elias Rhodes
Producer/Actor (Skyway Man): James Wallace
Producer: Ryland Walker Knight
Wardrobe Supply: Kristin Klein
Set Dresser: Dana Lindstrom
Visual Effects: Jamie Niebuhr
Titles: Teddy Blanks
Color: Derek Hansen
Production Company: Capsaisinco
Coloring done at AFX Creative
Kodak - 16mm Film Processing
Special Thanks - Kevin Moran, 2200 Studios, Vacation SF, Cody & Katie Rhodes, AV Geeks
/// Song 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
/// 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
