Insane playing skills demonstrated throughout the song; great work, dude!! I wish I could've been there, your songs are always such bangers :D

I’ll never get the chance to go to a concert but I love yalls music

Dogs & Cats

A Thousand Songs About It All: Act 1 is out now!
Download/Stream: https://madilynmei.lnk.to/AThousandSongsAboutItAll
Album Merch + Vinyl & CD: https://shop.madilynmei.com/ 
 
Written and Performed by Madilyn Mei 
Produced and Mixed by Scrawny 
Mastered by Joe Hutchinson 
Video Animation by Scrawny 
Intro/Outro Animation by Madilyn Mei & Scrawny 
 
Lyrics:
No time to waste
Gonna be late for fate
You know what they say ‘bout bright flames
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace you
Replicate
AI generate you
 
No time to waste
Gonna be late for fate
You know what they say ‘bout bright flames
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace you
Replicate
AI generate
 
I don't know the things I wanna say until I say it
I hate it till I play it
Up on stage and see your faces
Let go of the reins
Now my whole brain’s a one man circus
This has to be my fate
It’s my only sense of purpose
 
Make it a character
You're her but you're not her

No you can’t take a day
You’re our brightest flame
No you can’t change your name
You’re our brightest flame, woah!
 
I don't know which way to go
So I continue forward

The pure and utter horror
Realizing I left me behind
I'm lonelier than ever
But I guess that's for the better
Time to kill and bills to pay
And plenty things to write

I’m just a little not myself lately
Too late to contemplate
You chose your fate
Maybe I should
 
Make it a character
You're her but you're not her

No you can’t take a day
You’re our brightest flame
No you can’t change your name
You’re our brightest flame
No you can’t take a day
You’re our brightest flame
No you can’t change your name
You’re our brightest flame

I’m done, I’ve just begun (la la la)
Why am I burning out?
Did I fly too close to the sun? (la la la)
Why am I burning out?
It was just starting to get fun (la la la)
Why am I slowing down?
Why am I burning out? (la la la)
Why am I burning?
It’s burning
 
No time to waste
Gonna be late for fate
I know what they say ‘bout bright flames
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace me
Replicate
AI generate me
 
Gotta keep up
I’m eating my own dust
Don’t know what to do or to trust
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace me
Replicate
AI generate

No time to waste (I don’t know if I can go on)
Gonna be late for fate
You know what they ‘bout bright flames
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace you
Replicate
AI generate you
 
No time to waste (but I know the show must go on)
Gonna be late for fate
You know what they ‘bout bright flames
Gonna burn out
They gonna replace you
Replicate
AI generate
 
I don't know which way to go
So I continue forward
The pure and utter horror
Realizing I left me behind
 
I could write
A thousand songs about it all
I've just begun, now I can't stop
Lose your mind
Stay who you’re not
But the brightest of flames
Burn half as long

A Thousand Songs About It All: Act 1

My Only Sense Of Purpose

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After the Ball

The Deed

Lyrics:
You dropped into my life
When I needed you most
That should’ve been the first red flag
You smiled at me like
A parasite in need of a host
Slipped a contract out of your bag
And when I frowned at the empty quill
You jabbed me with a dull syringe

I don’t like to be pressured
I don’t like to be pushed
I don’t like to be pressured
I don’t like to be pushed
I don’t like to be
Pressured pressured pressured pressured
Pressured pressured pressured pressured

It was an ominous start
But you said
The money came from your heart
And you only wanted
The very best for me
You wanted me to succeed
But in your own particular sense
At a particularly painful expense
The independence of my body and my mind
From the particulars
Of all your extracurriculars
The fog of obligation grew so thick
I couldn’t even breathe

I don’t like to be pressured
I don’t like to be pushed
I don’t like to be pressured
I don’t like to be pushed
I don’t like to be
Pressured pressured pressured pressured
Pressured pressured pressured pressured

Another twist of the knife
Another turn of the screw
Another perfect time
To thank myself
For drumming up the courage
To burn bridges with you
And for all the shit you talk about me
I should think
You would be thankful as well
But you just can’t seem to let it die
So we should probably discuss it
When I see you in hell
I’ve made a list of the grievances
That I never got a chance to air

I don’t like to be lied to
I don’t like to be tricked
I don’t like to be gaslit
I don’t like to be groped
I don’t like to be blackmailed
I don’t like to be stalked
I don’t like to be threatened
I don’t like to be trapped
I don’t like to be
Pressured pressured pressured pressured
Pressured pressured pressured pressured

Head Like A Nest

Grievances

Lyrics:
Ill-adapted to the elevation
Having only ever summitted false peaks
I rely on my guide
When my head starts feeling light
When my chest starts feeling tight

To rebreathe
Rebreathe into
Rebreathe
Rebreathe into me

Harnessed by the kind resuscitation
Buttressed up and out of the crevasse of the past
I rely on my mind
When my hands stop feeling
When my feet stop feeling

To rebreathe
Rebreathe into
Rebreathe
Rebreathe into me
Rebreathe life into me

Now when I belay
The aches and pains abate
A new stream of air
Allays the old sense of malaise

Now when I descend
For real or just pretend
I can depend on a friend
With a warm breath to lend

I drop onto the cold facade
Lean into a bold glissade
This wind could blow ice into anyone's lungs
I'm grateful that mine have thawed
I'm grateful that mine have thawed

Rebreather

Uncaged in LA

Waterfall (Live)

Fish in a Birdcage

Fish in a Birdcage (Live)

I’m Hateful, I’m Horrible, I Love You

APPRECIATE (interlude)

Free at Last

Dustan Townsend is more than just your typical roof climbing guru. He’s also quite possibly the best cello playing hippy from Victoria.

With a bow in his right hand and an ebony fretboard clutched in his left, Dustan has adventured far to bring his message of love to a wide audience.

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