Written and recorded by Maddie Batzli, 2013.

You Will Always

Written by Maddie Batzli, 2013.
Home recording.

All These Lines

Curving Over

Voice & uke. 
Written by Lynn (Maddie Batzli), May 2014. Performed by Lynn & Gail (Maddie, & Abby Cali).

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Lyrics:

You're quoting me softly and 
I lower my gaze just to win you the bet
I'm bound but invisible
Tied to the words that some younger girl said
I think I'm invisible 
In front of a judge who don't know who I am,
I can't say who I am
Do I want to be visible
In front of a judge who don't know how to pay for the stories he gets

Bluebells don't make a sound
Bluebells don't make a sound
Fire fly back on down
Light up on the ground
Come around
please do come around
I can't explain it but somehow I need you right now
I could walk down the road for a mile and be just out of town

I'm not dancing in daylight
And hoping you'll catch me
Off guard, like I planned
Equivocal motions
Never turn out feeling honest or grand
Yet out by the water
she reached out for my hand and I said it's too still, I don't think that I can
But then the next morning
I went to the shore and I stepped in alone with my head in my hands

And if I was listening
Would I always hear the same song in my mind
I thought I was dreaming
The day that you told me you wanted to die
I can't find a reason
For doing some things that I try to do 
but I still try them too soon
Your shoulders feel tighter
And I like to think it's just 'cause we spent too long in one place just staring out into the afternoon

Don't Make A Sound (Live Demo 1)

Written by Maddie Batzli, August 2013.
Home recording.

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Lyrics:

It’s not really what you said,
it’s more what you didn’t
And it’s taken
hours of windswept murmurings
to see this
come to life-- some blooming tangled garden,
curling buds in front of my eyes
'til this vast space in my mind is the only thing I see
It’s the only thing I see

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And sitting on the sofa, hearing her tug on metal strings
makes me realize what I’ve done
I’ve never failed to drag the blood from my
hands, and spin it into something
something
so poetic and young
Something so poetic and
young

something like:
What if seeing your face makes me wanna cave,
What if seeing your face makes me want to save you
What if seeing your face makes me
wanna crawl into bed and watch the night fall
for days
And bury myself alive in my own mind
Bury myself in my own mind

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And they're so twisted and
childish,
the lies I tie around my fingers 
Oh I just wanna pick you up sometimes and weave you into them
so I could hold you and still keep on looking forward,
but some days I’d want to drop you down again
(For the both of us, I know)
someday we’ll need to drop this down again.

Murmurings (Demo 3)

Written by Maddie Batzli, October 2013.
Home recording.

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Lyrics:

I wonder
how much is in a name
You’ve wandered for a thousand miles
and years, but love
I think it’s all the same

You held me
how the river held your son
Delicate, don’t let it slip,
unholy grip
You think you’ve never won

Oh, sweet forgiveness
Oh, could never come too soon
I want to pack up all these letters now
and send them by priority to you

Mothers
taught by mothers riding through
Victim of her circumstance,
you’ve learned this dance
Look what it’s done to you

Closing
your eyes with no relief
Tell me what you fear, my dear
I’m here
I’m hearing every word you speak

Oh, sweet forgiveness
Oh, could never come too soon
And if we spoke in sister tongues
I’d risk these lungs and say these words
to you

Roots (Demo 1)

written & performed live by Maddie Batzli
recorded by Alex Wilder

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Lyrics

You love
the way a satellite flies,
through the night chasing horizons
At first sight
you were a fallen star, and
then I choked on my perceptions

I knew all the places that you been
so how did I let you in,
like I was waiting on some sign
Hold my breath and count to ten—
I thought I could wish on you then,
but you came to me in pieces

But I don’t mind,
just walk across these lines
I’ll pretend
you’re doing right,
you’re doing right by me
Full head first
and weightless, I dove
into the night
I wonder if you’re there—
on the other side of the morning

I’d set sail long before if I knew,
but habit ties us to our moorings
And I don’t even know if I’m aching
’til dusk starts to seem like it’s morning

But I don’t mind,
just walk across these lines
I’ll pretend
you’re doing right,
you’re doing right by me
Our minds adjust to the night
like our eyes do
I’m saying things
I never would have said
on the other side of the morning

Satellite

Written by Maddie Batzli, 2014

Vocals: Maddie Batzli
Vocals, Guitar, Software Instruments, Production: Alex Wilder

Core of It (Demo 1)

Written January 2012 by Maddie McCray Batzli.

Lyrics:
I don’t know what to think anymore
Yet what’s worse I don’t know if I ever did
In this world of blind allegiance
Did they use me, could I let myself admit this

And all I wanted was assurance
That my thoughts were worth something
But they just speak with condescension
While you leave my soul trembling

So I won’t trust no one, can’t trust myself
With eyes wide open
Cause I can’t trust your words, you’ve made it worse
With false devotion
‘Cause you tell me what you want to hear
What you want to hear (2x)
Want to believe in
You tell me what you want to hear
And I believe it (2x)

Cause I don’t know how to feel anymore
Yet what’s worse I don’t know if I ever did at the start
And garlands form beneath my fingers, music pours (from) between my lips
And the ruthless tintinnabulation throbs as your poison in my ears
As I fall
'Cause what else could I do
Fall

So I won’t trust no one, can’t trust myself
With eyes wide open
‘Cause I can’t trust your words, you’ve made it worse
With false devotion
‘Cause you tell me what you want to hear
What you want to hear (2x)
Want to believe in
You tell me what you want to hear
What you want to hear
And I believe it (2x)

'Cause what else could I do
It’s tragic, they say, that when you took him
You took my judgment too
Yet now I see what I pushed aside to keep myself sane
I see the truth in all of you
Thorned fingers for what gain;
Tell me is it better to let it all go
Or just keep playing this game
Or will they both amount in the same

'Cause I don’t know what to feel anymore
Yet what’s worse I don’t know if I ever did from the start
How can I cope with all this chaos
Lamentations from my lips
Think what they’ll say of poor Ophelia
Lost within Neptunian grip
As I fall into my own reflection
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Recorded September 2012 at Blast House Studios.
Special thanks to Dustin Sisson.

Ophelia

CREDITS

Written by Maddie Batzli.
Performed by LINE.

LINE:
Maddie Batzli: lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Austin Lynch: bass, vocals, lead guitar
Esther Chun: vocals
Will Ault: drums

Recorded and mixed by Dustin Sisson, Blast House Studios, Madison, WI.
Mastered by Landon Arkens, Blast House Studios, Madison, WI.

Album artwork by Maddie Batzli.

LYRICS

You, bright and hazy
You came towards me
You move like headlights in early morning
Slowly, and almost smiling
Then racing
I felt the impact before it hit me

In your eyes I can see
My false apathy reflected back
We’re trapped by gravity
Still orbiting light that can’t last

I said, I’ve really missed this
Then we just
Exchange our pleasantries as they’re needed
No laughing like we used to
Just searching for
What we buried here in September

In our lies I can feel
The weight of all we left unspoken
We’re trapped by gravity
Still orbiting but still broken
Please say this isn’t how it ends

Oh please say
No just say
Oh please say
No just say
This isn’t how it ends, love
No, this isn’t how it ends
No, this isn’t how it ends, love
No please say
This isn’t how it ends

In your eyes I can see
My false apathy reflected back
We’re trapped by gravity
Still orbiting light that can’t last

In our lies I can feel
The weight of all we left unspoken
We’re trapped by gravity
Still orbiting but still broken
Please say this isn’t how it ends

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