Kevin Morby ‘Javelin’

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Today's Top Tune: Kevin Morby ‘Javelin’

Kevin Morby announces his eighth studio album, Little Wide Open, out May 15, and shares its lead single “Javelin.” Produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner, the album is Morby’s most personal and vulnerable work to date — a collection of songs set against tangled highways, small-town backdrops, and the restless pull of American life. On “Javelin,” Morby reflects on love and constant motion, joined by Amelia Meath (Sylvan Esso), whose luminous vocals elevate the track.

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0:00.0	Back in town
0:21.8	All by myself
0:24.0	I should go dancing
0:25.5	Take my boots off the shelf
0:29.1	Don't be concerned babe
0:32.0	At least not yet
0:33.8	I am still happy
0:35.4	To be breathing in
0:40.3	You know I have been, you know I have been
0:44.3	Travelling
0:50.3	Through the air and down the highway Like a javelin
0:57.0	Towards this old cowtown
1:01.0	In the Bible bell
1:04.0	Remember when they asked us, baby, just how it fell
1:09.0	To be alone in the middle of middle America when the sun moves behind the
1:21.6	moon and the earth goes black Mama is like that Our long's forever, babe, is it just one day, the day we go in, then when we escape.
1:57.0	And my husband And my husband
2:02.6	Could this be all I be?
2:05.6	Would you be my wife
2:08.6	Everything ending now
2:10.6	And to a beginning now
2:13.6	But when you fall you get back up and run.
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