Jo Murgatroyd is a New Zealand songwriter with no fixed abode. Having left the stability of her hometown in pursuit of music, the ‘Keep Me Close (If You Can)’ EP is about honouring her family’s nomadic legacy and learning to navigate her own adventure regardless of fear. 

Written, recorded and produced: Jo Murgatroyd
Mastered: Luis Kennett

Lyrics:
Seeing all my faults clearer than ever
why am I a contradiction of fear and hope
I heard you say you're proud but of what?
I'm weak when I should have been strong

My mistake was to think that life would never change
My restraint was believing fear would never go away

I think this season's coming to an end
All the birds are disappearing
I'll go with them
The loneliness will fade and I'll stay awake
Guarding my soul till the sunrise breaks

My mistake was to think my life would never change
My restraint was believing fear would never go away

Birds take me with you
I want to fly North for the winter too


Birds

Jo Murgatroyd is a New Zealand songwriter with no fixed abode. Having left the stability of her hometown in pursuit of music, the ‘Keep Me Close (If You Can)’ EP is about honouring her family’s nomadic legacy and learning to navigate her own adventure regardless of fear.

Written, recorded and produced: Jo Murgatroyd
Mastered: Luis Kennett

Lyrics:
Closer than a brother
closer than a friend
Falling for each other
through the internet

Dreaming of magic moments
but I wake before we kiss
Feeling accountable
for the way I let you hold my hand

Box me up and enclose my heart for return
Forward me on and I'll forget I was ever yours

That we ever paused to take the time
to learn, to find out more about our feelings
That we found a space within a crowd
to move our feet and dance the night away

Box me up and enclose my heart for return
forward me on and I'll forget I was ever yours

Forward Me On

Jo Murgatroyd is a New Zealand songwriter with no fixed abode. Having left the stability of her hometown in pursuit of music, the ‘Keep Me Close (If You Can)’ EP is about honouring her family’s nomadic legacy and learning to navigate her own adventure regardless of fear.

Written, recorded and produced: Jo Murgatroyd
Mastered: Luis Kennett

Lyrics:
Keep me close if you can
I won't be here for long and I'm not coming back for anyone
It's okay for you to cry
I am safe, I am kind
but I won't be here for long
so tell me what you're thinking

both of us have nothing in common
both of us have already split the bill

Will you miss me when I'm gone
or will you just move on?
I'm far away and your face is pixelated
Will you miss me when I leave
or have you already deleted me from your phone?
How far is too far to go?

Can we please not pretend
that this was ever gonna work 
that you had never looked around for someone else
You might have won me with more time
but I was always too polite 
to turn you down flat outright to your face


both of us have nothing in common
both of us have already split the bill

Will you miss me when I'm gone
or will you just move on?
I'm far away and your face is pixelated
Will you miss me when I leave
or have you already deleted me from your phone?
How far is too far to go?

Keep Me Close (If You Can)

Jo Murgatroyd is a New Zealand songwriter with no fixed abode. Having left the stability of her hometown in pursuit of music, the ‘Keep Me Close (If You Can)’ EP is about honouring her family’s nomadic legacy and learning to navigate her own adventure regardless of fear.

Written, recorded and produced: Jo Murgatroyd
Mastered: Luis Kennett

Lyrics:
I was driving home last night
I took the long 'cause it gave me time
to think about me and you

In that order I must think
No regrets or taking back the things
I have given you

No it doesn't stop the pain
but it softens the mistakes
I have changed and you are just the same
So maybe we should part ways

Does it hurt you when I leave 
I say I'm busy but do you believe me?
You're far too hard to read

Grieving doesn't stop the pain
but it softens the mistakes
I have changed and you are just the same
So maybe we should part ways


Morning Dredge

Written by Jo Murgatroyd & Jared Hiakita and featuring the guitar playing of Jacob Petrossian, this song is about community and learning how to recognise people for who they really are - not our enemies.

N.M.E. (No More Enemies)

Half Pint Heart Lyrics:

Summertime in the afternoon
I don't wanna leave but you've got excuses
of where you have to be

I imagined you'd hold my hand
but all you offer are sips of beer
are all your gifts secondhand?

You and you alone
would have the nerve to say you cared
You and you alone can break the rules
and I still want your half pint heart back

I'm at home, you're at a bar
it makes no difference when we're apart
With you I know I'm still alone

Midnight texts light up my phone
I'm pretending not to see
while you pretend to miss my company

You and you alone
would have the nerve to say you cared
You and you alone can break the rules
and I still want your half pint heart back

Half Pint Heart

Born around a fire pit in Thornbury, Melbourne, Wilde A.U. has released their first single 'Sober'.

Documenting the highs and lows of a relationship gone bad, 'Sober' is about realising that no matter how hard you try, you can't always make it work. 

Mixed: Good Mood Melbourne
Mastered: Pheek
Engineered: Good Mood Melbourne & Jo Murgatroyd

Sober

songwriter, lyric lover and percussionist. 



Jo Murgatroyd

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