"Fire"

Written and composed by Mateo Escueta
Mixed by Miguel Escueta
Mastered by Juni Devecais
Recorded at Big House Studios
Cover art by Kevin Calderon (be.net/kevincalderon)

Featuring:
David Lina on Drums
Andrew de Pano on Bass
Nico Nuñez on Guitar
Joshua Blay on Guitar
Mateo Escueta on Guitar and Vocals

Lyrics:

Set my heart on fire.
Purge all ill desire.
I’ve taken strides and realized,
You just don’t win all your fights.

These flames are pure, my heart is sure.
I’ll close this door and walk on through.

Come and take me home,
And all I know,
I need a light; won’t you walk me through the line?
Taking it slow, I’m learning as I go.
So set the pyre,
I’ll dance with the fire.

How many more walls must I build then break down,
Before you come around?
I take one step, I’m calling out,
“Will someone tell me where the secret is found?”

Come and take me home,
And all I know.
I need a light, please don’t just walk me down the line.
Taking it slow,
I’m learning as I go.
I’m on the attack, there’s no turning back. 

Set my heart on fire.
You and I were meant to live on the edge. 

Come and take me home,
And all I know.
I need a light, please don’t just walk me down the line.
Taking it slow,
I’m learning as I go.
I’m on the attack, there’s no turning back. 

COPYRIGHT OWNED BY MATEO L. ESCUETA

Fire

Crawling was the first EP of Mateo Escueta, and was launched on January 11, 2014. 

Executive Produced by Miguel Escueta
All songs written and composed by Mateo Escueta
Mastered by Juni Devecais
EP artwork and design by Kevin Calderon

David Lina - Drums
Andrew de Pano - Bass
Nico Nunez & Joshua Blay - Guitars
Mateo Escueta - Guitar & Vocals

Available on iTunes, Spotify and CD Baby!

In My Head

Keep Me

Crawling

Written and composed by Mateo Escueta
Mixed by Miguel Escueta, David Lina, and Mateo Escueta
Mastered by Juni Devecais
Recorded at Big House Studios and Thirdline Studios with Anton Magno and David Lina of Soundspace Manila

Lyrics: 

Lights out, closing time
I’ve given up giving up on you, it’s true
This coffee cup is warming
but it’s your hands I should be holding this morning

I cannot move
I don’t see what I’ve got to prove

Do you really want me?
Do you really care?
‘Cause I’m trying to know you, baby, 
but you, baby, but you won’t

Slow down, stay awhile
You build me higher than you care if I’ll hurt when I fall
I’ve been through that haul before
Played the fool and then turned into the next best stranger

So break all your rules, 
‘Cause you know I’m playing it cool

Do you really want me?
Do you really care?
‘Cause I’m trying to love you, baby, 
but you, baby, but you won’t

Trust in me, baby
This is all I’ll ever need
I’ve been dying to love you, baby,
but you, baby, but you don’t.

If I fall, I know you won’t call it
If I’m wrong, you won’t know it
If I’m right, you won’t ever be there for me

Do you really want me?
Do you really care?
‘Cause I’m trying to love you, baby, 
but you, baby, but you won’t

Trust in me, baby
This is all I’ll ever need
I’ve been dying to love you, baby,
but you, baby, but you won’t.

COPYRIGHT OWNED BY MATEO ESCUETA




Lights Out

Written and composed by Mateo Escueta
Mixed by David Lina and Mateo Escueta
Mastered by Juni Devecais
Recorded at Big House Studios

Lyrics:

There’s no more room for me in your spaces
No more looking back, I should be leaving now
This time around, I’ve done myself in sideways
But I'm better off without than waiting on nothing

Please don’t try too hard
I’ve already been losing, coming apart

Oh I need you close to me.
But I need to know what it’s like to live without you.
Oh I want you close to me, beside me
But as hard as I try, I know I can’t lie, 
I should’ve just closed my eyes
I’ve been going in circles, tumbling sideways

There’s no room for excuses,
I keep stumbling on my word, I’m sorry I’m hopeless like this
No, I don’t want to go places, but all I’ve done is created distance
Please don't go

How can I be missing you
I’m standing right next to you

Oh I need you close to me
‘Cause I’m out of place, and I can’t live without you.
Oh, I want you close to me
But as hard as I try, I just can’t deny
I’m the only one on this side (maybe I’m just blind)
I’m wide awake, but living in a dream

A leap of faith–that’s what you were
And I’d do it all over again

Oh I need you close to me
‘Cause the truth is I’m so lost without you
Oh, I want you close to me, beside me
As hard as I try, I know I can't deny
I’ll never find another you

I can’t keep going in circles like this
It’s not always about me
I can’t keep running back to your embrace
I need to set you free

COPYRIGHT OWNED BY MATEO ESCUETA

Sideways

Written, composed, and produced by Mateo Escueta
Mastered by Juni Devecais
Recorded at Big House Studios

Lyrics:

And you—I don’t know what to make of you 
Somehow the doors I closed led me here too
I can choose, but I can’t tie myself in twos 
It’s got to be all of me running at the cue
 
This feeling is hard to fight
This feeling has paralyzed me

I don’t know why, I don’t know how
but where I am is where you are now
Tell me that you see it too 
Tell me that want this too

This feeling is hard to fight
This feeling has paralyzed me

But no, I don’t want to know what it’s like to lose
Before I have the chance to choose
I’m only as good as I could ever give
But I need something more to live for

This feeling
I didn’t ask for this
This feeling
It’s changing everything 

No, I don’t want to know what it’s like to lose
Before I have the chance to choose
I’m only as good as I could ever give
But I need something more to live for

No, I don’t want to know what it’s like to lose you
because I feared what I'd do
Caught between what I know and what I want 
I’m torn with why I can’t lay myself down

COPYRIGHT OWNED BY MATEO ESCUETA

Choices

Co-written by Mateo Escueta and David Lina
Mixed by Miguel Escueta, David Lina, and Mateo Escueta
Mastered by Juni Devecais
Recorded at Big House Studios
Drums recorded at Thirdline Studio with Anton Magno and David Lina of Soundspace Manila

LYRICS:

23 and a lifetime ahead
I go to bed and dread what’s next
Funny, I can put up with the beat, not the heat I put on myself

When I stare at these hands turning the days away
When I doubt if I can be overwhelmingly honest and say

I think I’m running out of time
Should I be afraid?
I’m living right here, right now
Do you think I’m going to lose my mind?
I think I'm gonna be just fine,
This is how it should be in this

Life; it’s a ride
A motion against the current of my expectations
A tide of emotions warning me I won't know the man the water shows
Clarity is my generation’s notion that certainty is like the wind you feel
But you can’t always count on how it feels
Until the disappointment is real

I think I’m running out of time
Should I be afraid?
I’m living right here, right now
Do you think I’m going to lose my mind?
I think I'm going to be just fine
I'm reading the signs

It is what it is and what you make of it
It’s all right that I haven’t got it all figured out

I thought I was strong
Not strung out and done 
I’m finding out it’s all right to be wrong

I think I’m running out of time
Should I be afraid?
I’m living right here, right now
Do you think I’m going to lose my mind?
I think I'm going to be just fine
I'm reading the signs

I think I’m running out of time
Should I be afraid?
I’m living right here, right now
Do you think I’m going to lose my mind?
I think I'm gonna be all right
I’m right where I’m meant to be

If time won’t tell, then someone will.
I’m all right, just a little bit shaken, my friend
This is where I dare to be

COPYRIGHT OWNED BY MATEO ESCUETA

Co-written by Mateo Escueta andJoshua Blay
Mixed by Miguel Escueta, David Lina, and Mateo Escueta
Mastered by Juni Devecais
Recorded at Big House Studios
Drums recorded at Thirdline Studio with Anton Magno and David Lina of Soundspace Manila

LYRICS:

The pressure’s on, I can feel the regression
No reassurances, it could be regret
I want to fly, but I think I’m slipping through
So far away and there’s nothing I can do

I’m on a one-way ticket for this route to my dreams
It’s got me on my knees
Did I dream too much?
It’s more than I can know
I’m scared I’ll be alone, what did I miss?

Is there something I missed, I didn’t see
I should’ve seen you coming out my way
There’s got to be something in me
that I missed, I didn’t see
There’s got to be something in me
that’s going to make me believe

(La la la la)
(La la la la la)

A little more, that’s all
I’m looking for the answers
A little more that’s all 

Is there something I missed, I didn’t see
I should’ve seen you coming out my way
There’s got to be something in me
that I missed, I didn’t see
There’s got to be something in me
that’s going to make me believe

(La la la la)
(La la la la la)

COPYRIGHT OWNED BY MATEO ESCUETA

Something In Me

Written and composed by Mateo Escueta
Recorded at home with Garageband
Cover art by Kevin Calderon (be.net/kevincalderon)

Lyrics:

You are an angel, inside my head.
The one I can't forget.
I was the weary soul on a foolish road.
Who tried to win your heart, and now.

I can't fall any faster than I already have, now you got me crawling.
I swore I would never give any more than I could keep, but now you got me crawling.

Turn around, hear you mind boy, go on home.
You're better off behind those walls that you built.
Read the signs. Keep yourself from falling in too deep.
Catch yourself before its too late. No.

Put your hands together. (I'm crawling)
Put your hands together. (I'm falling)
Put your hands together. (I'm not running)
Put your hands together. (I'm falling, yeah)

I can't fall any faster than I already have, now you got me crawling.
I swore I would never give any more than I could keep, but now you got me crawling.

Can't fall faster when you look me in the eye.
And when I hit the ground, I'm crawling, crawling, crawling.

I can't fall any faster than I already have, now you got me crawling.
I swore I would never give any more than I could keep, but now you got me crawling.

I can't fall any faster than I already have, now you got me crawling.
I swore I would never give any more than I could keep, but now you got me crawling.
(Got me crawling, crawling, crawling)
(Oooh, oooh, oooh)
Can't fall faster when you look me in the eye.
And when I hit the ground, I'm crawling, crawling, crawling.
(Got me crawling, crawling, crawling)
(Oooh, oooh, oooh)

COPYRIGHT OWNED BY MATEO ESCUETA

Crawling (demo)

"In My Head"

Written and composed by Mateo Escueta
Mixed and mastered by Miguel Escueta
Recorded at Big House Studios.
Cover art by Kevin Calderon (be.net/kevincalderon)

Lyrics:

Starting to believe I’m never going to get to you.
Then again I knew what I was going to get into.
I let the silence speak as you see straight through the pieces,
To find the truth upon these dusty pages.

In my head, I’m still waiting.
In my head I’m barely holding on.

There is a fear and it’s got you and me wondering.
About things like scars and falling in too deep.
My fists are open and my arms are coming down.
You can take your time I’m not going anywhere.

In my head, I’m still waiting.
In my head, I’m barely holding on.

But the only constant thing among these questions is you.

In my head, I’m still waiting.
In my head, I’m barely holding on.

I’m barely holding on.

COPYRIGHT OWNED BY MATEO ESCUETA

In My Head (demo)

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Check the EPs, "Crawling" and "Lights Out," available on Spotify, iTunes, and CD Baby.

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