Track 5 from my EP, Home.

I don't have everything I need... but oh, the possibilities
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The Possibilities

Recorded live with Stephen Domenico on drums, Brandon Craw on electric guitar, Reginald Jackson on bass. Noel Molenda engineering.

Do you ever wish you could change your personality
Just a little bit?

Gun Shy

2019 copyright, Cortney Matz

She saw the brilliance of her King
She brought a priceless offering
She poured out all that she had on His precious feet
Nobody got her point of view
Nobody knew how deep her love
Nobody saw in her heart what only Jesus knew

And he said, "Beautiful, beautiful
Broken hearts can sing
And she's done a beautiful thing to me"

When love is once again denied
When hope is left to fossilize
When ashes are all that remains
Can this Phoenix rise?

It's, "Beautiful, beautiful
Broken hearts can sing
And you've done a beautiful thing to me

And isn't it wasted when you give yourself away?
But nothing is wasted when it's poured over me"

Hear Him say, "Beautiful, beautiful
Every broken heart will be mended as it's emptied out
It's beautiful, beautiful
Broken hearts can sing and you've done a beautiful thing to me"

And this weary heart will sing
That You've made a beautiful thing of me

Beautiful, Beautiful 2019

Written and performed by Cortney Matz 2020

I know that genius can't be bound up in deadlines
Still I hope you know I'm waiting
With bated breath, with open eyes
Watching sea and sky
And soon everything will be revealed
When you build your time machine, come get me
Let's go everywhere we've been and haven't seen
I've been waiting for you here
Don't delay, my mister
Mister E

I haven't met you yet but you know who you are
Mastermind of our adventures
What a time we'll have
What a life we'll live together, whatever the weather
When you're here, the hours disappear
When you build your time machine, come get me
Let's go searching for the one thing we haven't done yet
I've been waiting for you here
Don't delay, my mister
Mister E

All the places we have gone
All the things that we have done
All the people we have known
Only when you build your time machine
So build your time machine

When you build that time machine, come get me
Let's show the neighbors just how dumb they were to doubt you
And I - I don't care if it takes years
I'll be here, my mister
Mister E
My Mister E

Mister E

First track from the album, MYSTERY (2021 release). Copyright Cortney Matz, one-stop publishing. Female vocal with classic rock influences and strong beat, stomp.

LYRICS
Pickaxe ready and a grim expression
There's a yellow road and I'ma find it
Perseverance takes a powerful vision
There's a lot of work in gold mining

I don't know which way to find the gold
There's a whisper in my soul
Better mind it
Here I go on a long-ass shot 
To find the hill with a ribbon inside it

Twelve long months I've been chasing chunks
I wonder if I'm crazy for trying
Old-timers say you gotta follow your own nose
But what if mine's lying?

Dig away, it's the same every day
Other veins obey but not my one
What's this flash in the man?
Oh man, it's a big fat nugget of shine

Look at me, I'm the new queen bee
All of life's a game and I'm winning
Burn these rags with my rucksack bags
I'll be rich enough for fine linen

Come my friends, from your pain and poverty
Everybody eats for free when I'm with them
And when I'm dead they'll raise their heads
In memory of the very best of women

"Pardon me, hate to bust your bubble
But I'm sure you've heard that there are dangers
Deep out here in the mine and shine
True gold ain't the only thing that glitters

"See this color, the shape and density
I truly hate to see you embittered
Gold is softer and has no scent
But what you found is its image-spitter"

Don't you run, my song's not done
There's a lot more vision with insight
Give your pity to dreams forgotten
Mine thrives with every day I'm alive

I've been fooled by a thing or two before
Doesn't hurt me anymore
I'll be alright
One thing I know for sure:
In heaven no one walks on roads made of pyrite
You can bet when I walk through heaven
I'll be treading gold that came from my mine

Nah nah...

1. Pyrite Road

Haunting piano music from the heart.
MYSTERY - new album in December 2020

Cortney Matz

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