Name: In Here by Kirsten Maxwell
Duration: 3 min 18 s
Description: This is brand spankin' new and I wanted to share it. Needs some work but enjoy for now!

voice and lyrics and guitar are amazing too

I especially love the last verse and its hopefulness.

First single from Heather's first solo studio CD. 3-song EP version available now. Fund the full-length at http://www.igg.me/at/messmakers


Good Heart

This is brand spankin' new and I wanted to share it. Needs some work but enjoy for now!

In Here

Track 3 on the "Mess" EP, which will join with 8 more songs this June to become the full length: "A Message in the Mess."
Featuring Joel Ackerson (mandolin/electric guitar/arrangement), Zack Teran (bass), Eric Andersen (vocals) and Justin Kruger (percussion). Also known as The Novelists of Reno, NV. 

Lyrics: 
God, please make me a stone.
I don’t want to feel anything anymore.
All my soft heart never came to any good
And I can’t find a blue-eyed boy
To love me like he should.

Is my heart keeping you awake?
You prefer my lips a dam and not a garden gate.
We could be years before the flood.
Then we’ll just ask all the disasters not to come with us.
Like that’s enough. 

Boy, please leave me alone.
You will never know what I know, what I’ve done.
Centuries, my legacy, how they curse my name.
I made you like God, but all you remember
Is my shame.

Is my heart keeping you awake?
You prefer my lips a dam and not a garden gate.
We could be years before the flood.
Then we’ll just ask all the disasters not to come with us.

A woman drove you from the garden,
That’s how a woman made you great.
What would you be if not for me,
The very woman that you hate?
And I have born my punishment.
And I have earned a better fate.
And I will face my God again.
I am unafraid. I am unafraid.


Even Now

Vices & Virtues

Let's Kill Tonight

A look inside my head at one of the more disquieting thoughts I have as a teacher at the start of every school year. Written in response to the prompt, "Back to School," which also required a specific education institution name, what you like/hate about returning to school, the words quiz, school, class, teacher and book, and extra points for "monkey."

Lyrics:
Hello, my name is: Third School in Three Years.
Shuffled around where there's money to spare.
New list of classes, new list of names.
So much that's different, so much the same.

When did I begin studying all the latches - Could I open them
if my hands were shaking? That one painted shut ...
Cataloging all the places a child might fit.
Five doors to the exit. Thirty feet to the ground.
One flight to the roof. Better up? Better down?
Decide in advance, if you're stuck on the staircase.
How much time could I buy them if I ran out waving?

I hate it -
The space it takes up in my mind,
when I signed up to raise
the caliber
of minds.

So much time drilling all of the calculations
I hope they never know all my preparations,
how I quiz myself daily,
that they think it's just lessons,
textbooks from Texas, Civil War, Smith and Wesson,
ancient history, irrelevant mathematics.
So ashamed to have been monkeys - so willing to be statistics.
Keep them safe while I get them the basics:
Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic and Shelter in Place.

I hate it -
The space it takes up in my mind,
when I signed up to raise
the caliber of their minds.
Caliber:
the measurement of character
or the barrel of a gun.
Isn't language fun?
And the ones who are listening,
they think I know everything.

I'll make no hollow points here,
don't know what laws we should be passing,
don't need no degree from Princeton
for what to do about our children.
The trigger end's a person, hurt and scared and sad,
who could've been taught to talk or run or sing when they're mad.
Who needed comfort, a teacher, a parent.
a breath, a moment, before
there's no coming back...

I'd rather hold you than your bullet,
And so would everybody here.
And if they don't, I'll try to teach them
how to love instead of fear.
I'd rather hold you than your bullet.
You can take up this space in my mind.
'Cause I signed up to raise
the caliber of lives.
Caliber:
the measurement of character
or the barrel of a gun.
isn't language fun?
and the ones who are listening,
they think they know everything.

2016 demos

Caliber

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The Way You Look Tonight

Some lazy Sunday morning music for you all. Thanks Andrew for backing me on guitar.

Andrew And Ted Jam In C

I can't function!

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things unseen (prod. Abushady)

It arises slowly it's the will of man,
To spend some time alone just searching for the plan.
I find myself invited to the wild jungle,
There I found the guru helped me through my struggles....

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Alone ft. Mostly Everything (prod. tomcbumpz)

"This lil bitch wanna act the same
She playin' games it makes me crazy, crazy
I don't even know her name but she wants me to feel her pain,
She plays me,
Makes me insane...."

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Playin' Games (prod. $aiko)

"And I'm realizing now,
What this is all about. 
It's not what we had thought,
More what the moment brought."

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Kirsten Maxwell is a New York raised singer/songwriter. She has toured extensively over the past 4 years, and opened for such musical greats as Melissa Etheridge, Tanya Tucker, and Judy Collins. Maxwell performed a solo show at The Cutting Room in NYC, accompanied by Paul Shaffer. In a review of her latest self titled EP, John Apice of No Depression writes, “Her voice alone wraps itself around your ears…this is an artist still in the making and not just a singer.” In September, Maxwell performed the single from the EP on Good Day New York. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxG7XAYpR7w

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