music and lyrics: Kristen Englenz
producer: Aaron Lee Tasjan
keyboard, toy piano, vocals: Kristen Englenz
electric guitar, acoustic guitar: Aaron Lee Tasjan
drums, electric drums: Jon Radford
bass: Tommy Scifres
engineer: Gregory Lattimer
mixer and masterer: Patrick Dampier

Silly Silly Silly:
I am the outside her
the fear you're missing out on
I am misplaced feelings
a tickle in the back of your mind
and I put my needs aside
queen of compartmentalize
for a second
on the side
of your life

silly, silly, silly 
I fell again
wanting what cant be mine
hoping that dreams might provide
I close my eyes
silly, silly, silly
laugh, shout, cry
on to another try

I am the inside her
the mind you're spinning around in
I'm on the passenger side
but you make it feel like driving
I keep the truth in mind
queen of the unchosen
I am secret feelings
caught up in your love affair
for the second time in your life

silly, silly, silly 
I fell again
wanting what cant be mine
hoping that dreams might provide
I close my eyes
silly, silly, silly
laugh, shout, cry
on to another try

Silly Silly Silly

The Better Half

There's no face that smiles
That can't also frown
The stories of each land
Are echoed and turned around
The only story to go by
Is the one inside your head
Filled with teachings of the wind
That flows from mouths and limbs and ocean ends

The world is a magnet of positive and negativity
Water can fall and float and sink 
and go through it all again
The worst things happen to the best
That's a story told by those with ink tinted sadness

Beat me, and take me, and tell me the world is unkind
I'll turn around and I'll run away to the higher ground
No one can bring me down as long as I live
And so far as I'm breathing
I'm singing of the better half
The better half

Lyrics & Music: Kristen Englenz
Engineering & Mixing: Ben Price

The Better Half Demo

For Laura.

Take that road
You know it’s better than you’d think it’d be
Believe in the wait and see
Take comfort in the mystery
And if you’re in doubt 
Stuck in the middle of the lost and found
Look to the sky and breathe it out
Take comfort in what we have found

She’s a strong fierce soul
Her spirit soars into the great unknown
She’ll fight you hard but love you deeper than the ocean goes
She is hope in the human form
We know her as Laura

How much you over think
Cant compare to how much we see
When we’re in awe of you it seems so clear
The worlds in front of you just let it be
Cause you’re our Laura

She’s a strong fierce soul
The one we all wish we could be but no
You show us every day how much we don’t know
Don’t forget us, you’re our Laura
Don’t forget us, you’re our Laura

Laura
Friends on every side
Laura
Sisters as a guide
Laura
A brother to confide
Laura
parents filled with pride
Laura
Sadie raisin eyes
Laura
Time is on your side
Laura
So take the world for a ride

Take that road
You know its better than you’d think it’d be
Believe in the wait and see
Take comfort in the mystery


Lyrics: Kristen Englenz, Claire Lenz, Eric Englert, Christine Mahin
Music, vocals, keyboard, guitars, bass: Kristen Englenz
Percussion: Colin Agnew

Laura Demo

Got Me With Goodbye

Pray For Rain (featuring Blind Boys of Alabama)

Rebound

Good Enough

Kristen Englenz is an East Nashville-based indie singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and 2009 international bird call imitation champion.

Her new single “Silly, Silly, Silly” comes out 10.13.23!

Kristen Englenz

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