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Two Peach Trees

by Dominic Billett

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Satisfied heart Rest stop, slow down. I called you from a beach town. The waves were crashing and the service wasn’t great. Crescent City, the bay is still tomorrow. West coast flashes; holds and grips again. The feeling is funny, it’s when you least expect it. New love takes your mind and runs away. You try and chase it, never can erase it. Lie your worries down. Can you learn to love the ones its owed to? Years of heartbreak, take it as a friend. Open up to comfort in a warm room. Stop your moving and give your love away. I’ve been calling, searching, haunting. Leaving empty parts. Never wanted what I started though I’ve learned to satisfy my heart.
2.
Merida 04:33
Merida Led here by the light above. Drawn here by the night’s good love. Carefully we talked about the things that brought us here. Guided by the moon we walk. Never want to turn it off. I won’t love myself but I should learn to love you. The beauty in this lies within the truth we’re speaking. Never seeking, know just where we are. No confusion, always using words with meaning. I feel like I knew you from the start. You’re careful with my heart. In knowing you I’ve grown to care. And reach for purpose here and there. You teach me to believe in me and that’s more than I could do. The beauty in this lies within the truth we’re speaking. Never seeking, know just where we are. No confusion, always using words with meaning. I just can’t believe how you you are. You guide me from afar.
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The Image 03:54
The Image When we have gone and tried again, When it still won’t grow, Will you please let me be? Will you let me go? And when the winter comes, Don’t let it make you cold. Enter those precious memories, That come and take ahold. Neon lights burning bright everywhere, I cannot bear to look back. Into those dark and muddy times, With the fear that I have. My mind, it spins in circles. I miss the times where we’d laugh. I wish to only behold you; offer up a pat on the back. The image shows a lover, the image hides a lie. A false but careful character, the image in my mind. The love - it leaves us for good this time. The love - it leaves us behind. The love - it only brings us down, when love is all of our minds. The image shows a lover, the image hides a lie. A false but careful character, the image in my mind.
4.
Portrait 04:04
Portrait Lie in until the morning is gone. A dim light, a different dawn. Strange world turns outside. While no love is on your mind. I read words that you put to song, Loud thoughts as a vessel to some place that could save you from, Real love - unfamiliar, too. At your darkest you block a light. Portrait unfocused, I’m losing sight. Remember who helped you here. Waiting to read your fear. And be there when you need it most. Who’s good faith has turned them cold. “Please try and understand” - I say you’re unkind. When love is needed most, you’re waving goodbye.
5.
Stepping Stone Here you come like a light in the dark at a time where I needed love most. Build me up, take me in, pull the plug, turn it off, bring it back and start again. Have you found in myself what you need? By one name I was called, all along strung up high on display in dismay. I never worried at all, “It’s the best thing for me” to myself I would say. Have you found in yourself what you need? Stepping stone, throw us back to the creek. Leave your love to the side, treat us cruel, treat us mean, show your teeth, be unkind. The wolf at the door has been set to attack all along, move along we’ll get by. Have you found in yourself what you need? Stepping stone, throw us back.
6.
Around You 03:30
Around You Loose Leaf Lucy loses lovely letters, but maybe she’ll see the message in the paper. “I’m out. Long gone.” She tries hard to remember. “Your move. I’ll wait.” I’ll ask you in the morning. I want to feel safe around you. Anxious Andy asks around and around. Only to notice the feeling brings him down. “Look up. Look down. Never let them hurt you.” “I want to know you.” I’ll ask you in the morning. I want to feel safe around you.
7.
Want / Need 04:31
Want/Need I want you in the morning. I need you with the day. I found you in the evening off my hunt, you were my damaged prey. I took you under my care and stood you on your feet. I sheltered you with love, dear. All for you, not at all for me. What you need from me, it is more love than I could give. What you need from me, it is more love than I could give. I want you in the morning. I need you with the day.
8.
A Lovely Window Drift into a daze. Dream of different ways to get up on my feet, To try and maybe greet the day. Reach my coffee cup, pour it slow and hot. The feeling is fine, it feels like its mine sometimes. Staring deep outside, I realize the time. It’s quarter past three, where would I be if it wasn’t for me? I want to know where you’ve been. I want to know what you did. But what good would that be? If it wasn’t for me, if it wasn’t for me… When I’m feeling blue I dream a dream or two. A pleasant surprise through somebody else’s eyes. But where would I be?
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10.
Rose 07:27
Rose Roses planted in the bed. Rose lies laying alone instead. Holds her rosary close to her heart. Eyes up on the cross above her head. Wraps her faith around her hand. Replace the love she never had. Voices echo angrily through the house. Holding distant visions at bay - pray yourself to greet another day. Could I learn to love from you? The way you always wanted to? Guided by a light deep from inside, It raised you up and never brought you down. Lonely are we the lowly faces, cold in the night. Leave unto me your open heart. Alone and lonely in the end. Paper crumpled in your hand. A lover left before love could come back. His absence is the space to grow again. On your own you’ll learn to make a friend.
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Thinking 04:43
Thinking When I close my eyes I see outside, I see colors I see life. When I look outside I open my heart, When I look outside I open my heart.

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Perpetual Doom is proud to present the debut album from Dominic Billett: Two Peach Trees. Based in Nashville but immersed in life on the road, Billett brings years of work as a professional touring musician to his first proper full-length record. It is a collection of vibrant, distinctly realized songs, drawing from an eclectic mix of sounds, styles, and studio effects and unified by Billett’s evocative lyrical insights. The result is a profound debut that speaks to the persistence of longing, artistic discovery, and the tumultuous search for peace.

Two Peach Trees opens with rolling snare and breezy guitar as “Satisfied Heart” introduces its luminous, delay-laden take on classic No Depression. Stuck in some beach town, missing someone at home, Billett sings of love’s poor timing: “It’s when you least expect it that new love takes your mind and runs away.” The track’s building swell sets off what could be the album’s guiding sentiment: “I’ve learned to satisfy my heart.” The album pursues that satisfaction across eleven tracks that surge and settle—from the bouncing pop of “Merida” and the noise-soaked pulse of “Around You” to the stately pace of “The Image.” Billett soaks effortless melodies in layers of intriguing noise. The ambling “Stepping Stone” drips with feedback and guitarist Jerry Bernhardt pushes the restless ballad “Want/Need” from quiet to loud. On “Rose,” Billett paints scenes of his grandmother at prayer, reflecting on the quiet desperation in those memories—“Could I learn the love from you the way you always wanted to?”—until pedal steel guitarist Spencer Cullum Jr. transforms the second-half of the track into a sweeping panorama of sound. Like Two Peach Trees as a whole, the song seeks security and contentment but finds the power in collaboration and spontaneity.

Billett wrote, recorded, and performed the entirety of the album himself, but he speaks of the influences and communal spirit that inform it: “I’ve been lucky enough to befriend and play behind many literary greats, such as The Kernal, Andrew Combs, Caitlin Rose, Courtney Marie Andrews and Julia Jacklin. I feel like their songwriting has opened my eyes to what simple, powerful writing and performance can do.” Two Peach Trees offers that simplicity and power in every track.

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released April 8, 2021

Written, Performed, Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Dominic Billett.

Mastered Dan Knobler

12 String Acoustic Guitar on "Portrait" and Electric Guitar on "Want / Need" by Jerry Bernhardt

Pedal Steel On "Rose" by Spencer Cullum Jr.

Photography by Taylor Zachry

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