I love the way this reference the other songs in the album! it's so creative!

starts tearing up because it's giving suntan after the bad ending :(((

would it be better if we never met each other never stayed together

Played by The Crane Wives...
Kate Pillsbury - Emilee Petersmark - Ben Zito - Dan Rickabus

featuring their friends…
Steven Leaf - Seth Bernard - Rachel Gorman
Savannah Buist - Katie Larson

Produced by The Crane Wives & Ian Gorman
Mixed by Ian Gorman
Engineered by Ian Gorman & Ben Zito
Recorded at La Luna Recording & Sound in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Mastered by Glenn Brown at GBP Studios in Lansing Michigan

Artwork by Rebecca Green
Album Design and Layout by Bill Chesney

Thank you to our loving families and dear friends, Ian & Rachel Gorman, Glenn Brown, Rebecca Green, The Accidentals, Seth Bernard & May Erlewine Bernard, Steve Leaf & the Ex Pats, Joey Schultz of Chickenbach, John Campos, Kris Kessel, Sean, Sarah & Arlo Lamborne, Tyler Rehm, 88.1 WYCE, Matt Jarrells, John Sinkevics at Local Spins, Emily Fox & Michigan Radio, Kevin Romeo & Rhino Media, Joey Basch, Josiah Barber, Amber Buist, Josh Gibson, Bill Chesney, Leah Pillsbury, Mark Sturr, Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys, The Appleseed Collective, Joy & Tim Lago, Marianne & Jim Fischer, Carmen & Javier Vargas of Mi Pueblo in Kalamazoo and Edith the Kitty. Thank you to all of the people who have welcomed us into their homes, fed us a warm meal, or shared with us their stories. 

Special thanks to our PledgeMusic contributors. This album would not exist without the help of our fans! We are grateful for your support and humbled by your loyalty.

Not The Ghost

My debut album 'To Exist With You' is out now! 
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artwork by madilyn mei
produced and mixed by scrawny 
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Lyrics:
Cloud makers make pollution
There's a lady on a mountain smokin’ who knows what
Just breathe through your mouth
And dont roll the windows down

Hold your breath in every tunnel
Gimme a boost into the caboose of the train
Don't worry if we’re trespassing 
Just take a picture or two

I love to exist with you
I do I do I do
I love to exist with you
I do I do I do
I do I do I do

The Earth keeps growing, the towns are ruins
It's hard to think that anybody ever lived here once
I’d move away
Far to another place

The ghosts are haunting
Spirits knocking
On every door, it's still shocking
Cell service is non-existent
Home is somewhere distant in the
Desert somewhere that direction
Somewhere that way west

I love to exist with you
I do I do I do
I love to exist with you
I do I do I do
I do I do I do

Don’t break the rules of the road
Just take the scenic route away from home, home
Don’t break the rules of the road
Just take the scenic route away from home, home

There's a lady on a mountain smokin’ who knows what
There's a family of cows on a hill doin’ who knows what
Why we stop on the side of a busy road, I'm not sure
We’re here for a good time
Not for a long time
But hopefully we don't get hurt

(1, 2, 3, 4!)

Cuz I love to exist with you
I do I do I do

I love to exist with you
I do I do I doooo-oo-oo

I love to exist with you
I do I do I do-oo

I love to exist with you
I do hoo-hoo oo-oo
I do hoo-hoo oo-oo
ooooo

bum bum bum ba dum
(woo!)

(da da da)
la da da da da da da da
(da da da!)

la da da da
da-dum

la da da da
da-daaaaaaa
dum
da da da
dummmm

To Exist With You

To Exist With You (Reimagined)

My 'Promise You Won't Scream' (EP) is out now → https://fanlink.tv/promiseyouwontscream

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written and composed by madilyn mei
produced and mixed by scrawny
mastered by joe hutchinson
artwork by kris putter

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Lyrics:
Kleptomaniacrow
Following me wherever I go
Hoping I’ll drop something so
He can add to his collection
He likes the shiniest things
Dangling trinkets
Coins and beads
Offered up some crumbs to eat
But he didn’t seem interested

Kleptomaniacrow
Why follow I?
I’ve not much stowed away
In my pockets today
You have an eye on my necklace

You start a strange charade, a dance,
A’beckon me to follow
So like you always do I follow you this time
You lead me far away
Didn’t take you for a tour guide
You and I, parading by,
Deep into the wood

Oh Kleptomaniacrow
Leading me somewhere I don’t know
And to my horror you led
Me to a body at rest and
There I stood shocked by your side
For to my surprise the body was mine
Did that mean I was a ghost?
I don’t remember dying

And as I stood there crying
Over my own lifeless body
You felt the time was right to snatch
The locket you'd been eyeing
To my demise I realized too late
And with the pull 
The corpse had disappeared
And off you flew holding my soul

“Finders Keepers"
Written in chicken scratch
On my tombstone
Nice touch, thanks for that
Guess that grim reaper
Knew I’d never grow old
Awful funny sendin’ birds to do your work though

“Finders Keepers"
Well you finally have my soul
But little do you know
That necklace is
That necklace is

“Finders Keepers"
Written in chicken scratch
On my tombstone
Gonna pay for that
Couldn't know better
Who knew death would come
With feathers
Who knew he'd send a greedy beak
A’peckin at my feet, oh 

“Finders Keepers"
Well you finally have my soul
But, word to your crow,  though
That necklace is fools gold

Kleptomaniacrow

Listen

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written and composed by madilyn mei
violin by tiny umbrellas
produced and mixed by scrawny
mastered by joe hutchinson
artwork by kris putter

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Lyrics:
Pumpkin head
Flower bed
Just a gourd in a garden
What I’d give
For my own
Flesh and bone
For a day

Silly dreams, are they not?
In the end we all decay and rot
Still I wish to live outside
This hollowed head of mine
Did I exist if I was only ever thoughts? 

Time is fleeting, seasons change
I’m a fool, but still I pray
For my own flesh and bone for one day

Promise You Won't Scream

Flesh and Bone

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written and composed by madilyn mei
produced and mixed by scrawny
mastered by joe hutchinson
artwork by kris putter

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Lyrics:
I must be a sheep in wolf’s clothing
I wanna be mean
Haven’t found my growl
If you follow me I wont know what to do
Planned on following you
Planned on following you

I’ll blow your house down
If that’s what all the other wolves do
And I try I try I try I try I try
To fake my way
To become brave
To howl at the moon
To be just like you

I think I’m a sheep in wolf’s clothing
Only thought I think I’ve thought for myself
One day my whole brain had fallen out of my pocket 
Now it collects dust on a shelf

I’ll blow your house down
If that’s what all the other wolves do
And I try I try I try I try I try
To prove my place
To change my face
To do what you do

I’ll blow your house down
If that’s what all the other wolves do
And I lie I lie I lie I lie awake at night
Counting all my old friends as I try to fall asleep
Forgot what they, what they, what they, what they look like
I hope that they have not forgotten me

Sheep in Wolf's Clothing

Sheep In Wolf's Clothing

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produced and mixed by scrawny
mastered by joe hutchinson
artwork by kris putter

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Lyrics:
Met you at the cemetery
We caught frogs and moths and beetles
We discussed our deepest fears
Yours are ghosts, mine is people

If I had a heart it’d beat right out my chest
Right now I think I
Have something to tell you
Just promise me one thing

I have something to tell you
Promise you won't scream

But would you be my friend
If I told you that I died years ago?
Would you be my friend if I never told a lie?
Some things hard to hear though

Would it be better if we didn’t?
If you never knew the truth of my existence?
Would you ever be friends with a ghost?

Saw you sitting on a gravestone
Crossing through on my way home
I said “hi” and you looked shocked

“Wait, you can see me?"

“Ah so it talks!"

Catching bugs and chasing toads

“They were frogs"

"What's the difference?"

I said I’m afraid of ghosts
You're afraid of our existence

Would you be my friend
If I told you that I died years ago?
Would you be my friend if I
Never told a lie?
Some things hard to hear though

Would it be better if we didn’t?
If you never knew the truth of my existence?
Would you ever be friends with a ghost?

I don't want you to know a single thing about me
But I wanna know all there's to know about you

I don't want you to know a single thing about me
But I wanna know all there's to know about you

Met you at the cemetery
We caught bugs and frogs and feelings

“Wait did i just say that? Sorry!”

“Yeah you should be!
We caught bugs and toads and feelings!”

I would be your friend
No matter dead or alive
Losing my mind going mad

I'll be around
Til the day that I die
You and I can’t forget
Don’t regret what we had

Would it be better if we never
Met each other, never stayed together?
Would you stick around with all that you know?

(Nice to meet you
Taking your time
I think I’m a sheep in wolf’s clothing
Time is fleeting
Knew I’d never grow old
Seasons change)

I don't want you to know a single thing about me
But I wanna know all there's to know about you

I don't want you to know a single thing about me
But I wanna know all there's to know about you

At The Cemetery

At The Cemetery feat. cloudkissed

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written and composed by madilyn mei
produced and mixed by scrawny
mastered by joe hutchinson
artwork by kris putter

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Lyrics:
Nice to meet you
I’m a cryptid
I don’t scare off many children
They just laugh it makes me livid
I’m not scary
Like I should be
Play with dolls when
No one’s looking

Dad is Bigfoot
Mom is Nessie
Can’t just say “I tried my best,” see
They're expecting so much more I
Couldn’t care less, but I still try
I’ll go hairless
Grow some more eyes

Nice to meet you
Nice to meet you

They see right through me
Can I blame them?
Till I scare ‘em, I stay nameless
Movies set the bar too high
I need a win before I die
I can’t begin to want to try
Yet I still do

Nice to meet you
Nice to meet you
Nice to meet you

At the naming ceremony
Everyone else, their lives were all forming
But maybe I’ll earn it

At the naming ceremony
(I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m…)
What if my parents loathe me? Disown me?
(Who am I? Oh, who do I think I am? Think I am?)
If I don't earn it

At the naming ceremony
(I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m…)
Should've been gifted, should've been perfect
(What’s my name?)
But I couldn't even learn it

At the naming ceremony
Nobody told me congratulations

I didn’t earn it
I don’t deserve it

Nice to meet you
I’m a cryptid
Chose my own name
Now I’m Mildred
It’s no “Mothman”
“Chupacabra”
But it’s mine and
I deserve it
It’s my name and
I deserve it
It's my own and
I deserve it

Cryptid

feelings are fatal (revisited)

Boy Toy

Boy Toy (acoustic)

This is part of Rebecca Sugar's new album/EP Spiral Bound, and I'm uploading the entire album since they haven't done so for this platform, SoundCloud, yet.

Rebecca Sugar - Adams Morgan 1991

Lyrics:

Toeing a trench
In the mulch between
Your patch and mine
I stubbed myself on a treacherous thistle
And I cried out
If it were merely
A matter of a stray thorny bristle
A barrier screen could be laid
And I wouldn't miss you

We could go the distance
Were there more disease resistance
On your part
Nothing lasts forever
When you never
Let it start

Every day I pass this way
I expect to find you
Waiting for me
Beneath the branches
Of the buckeye tree
Waving a palmetto frond
Siphoning orange juice
With a barber pole-ish wand

Red horsechestnut?
Clever disguise
I, of course, guessed, but
Said you'd never naturalize

Species zag as seasons zig
Tough to keep plants in one place
Any chance they get, they diaspore
Or else transmutate
Traipsing looping garden paths
Chasing floodplain Tupelo
Tracing roots to Ponderosa
Tangling with a Strangler fig

Now in an old growth Bald-cypress stand
Knees locked in the strand swamp
Black- and yellow-crowned Night Herons
Abound in colonies
Conferring on me collective memory
My eyelids flutter
Orbits fill with water
Hemlock in my hammock
Limbs thrash, I spit and sputter
Alligator drags me under
Into the solution hole

To protect me from
Elements of fantasy
That thrive in shady reality
To offer respite from
The demands of gardening
To show me
Trees are just the fruit
Of an even bigger tree


Credits:

Produced by Josh Frigo
Co-produced by Stephan Nance
Stephan Nance - keyboard, vocals, backing vocals
Josh Frigo - banjo, guitar, backing vocals
Mathias Kunzli - percussion, drums
Josh Plotner - flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, bass clarinet
Yoed Nir- violin, viola, cello
Percussion arrangement by Mathias Kunzli
String arrangement by Yoed Nir
Strings recorded at Yoed Nir's Studios
Woodwinds arrangement by Josh Plotner
Woodwinds recorded at Josh Plotner's Studios
Lead vocals engineered by Adam Sweeney at Opal Recording Studio in Portland, Oregon
Vocal coaching by Nevada Jones and Adam Sweeney
Mixed by Josh Frigo
Mastered by Alex Dobbert
Artwork by Rebecca DeMoss
Graphic design by Chad Lowe

Arboretum

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recording artist
i write happy sounding sad songs

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At The Cemetery feat. cloudkissed

Madilyn Mei

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