The last song I'll release before my debut album "The Way We Were" drops 4/16/21 on Z Tapes. You can preorder a cassette on my bandcamp: https://matthewleger.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-we-were 

lyrics:

hello it's been awhile
found an old birch stump just to trace the lines
box of polaroids freckled with the mildew of time 
singin old songs pry your name out but they don't rhyme 

spent every day on the brink of dust   
laminated sun only sleep if we must
oh i've never thought so hard about you before

threw it all away just to sleep on the couch
drinkin jet fuel from a dixie cup spout
if i could just tell you everything i'd be good

roused a half-finished heaven out of summer ash
limbo spinnin' sweet, bottleneck in my head
you waft over everything i sip like a match 

hear the sobbing from the greenery 
everyone says that i need to see but
we both know what weeps in the viscera of grass

am i heading over
or just passing through
will it ever look beautiful again
if it doesn't in the sun
if it doesn't in the sun
if it doesn't in the sun

Laminated

all around me 
i feel dead air 
can't keep my head clear
woke up
everything's on hold
everything's on hold
& that's why . . . 

i can't tell you
where i'm going 
gotta make a clean break
i hear the susurrus 
of the underpass 
collapsing in on itself 
in the rearview mirror
i see your face there
it's just a dead end oh well

i can't tell you 
i can't tell you
i can't tell where i'm goin 


can i ever learn to not elope
with my second head
the one that makes me yearn 

spend my life taking sloppy stock        
of the cemetery dirt
hidden in my closet 

after all i'm still learning to sit
my muscles worn thin
from chasing light to sniff in 

so i store myself in a silo of words
grind them out of spit
the brink of language 

spend so much time on what could've been 
corral my wasted heads 
sweet poppy-soaked dread

& i want the elegy in dirt
if i choose to go 
nail me to my bed

Elope

Auto-Lullaby

Gutter

Dustbin

Redux

Beach Song

Ecstatic to present “Quickly Aging Here,” my new EP, with you all — 5 songs I’ve been working on for what feels like ages.

Two of these songs were started as far back as 2021, the final completed in 2024; my life has, to put it mildly, improved exponentially since then, and — as I mixed the last few months — I became increasingly aware of the lyrical, textural, and atmospheric changes that accompanied this growth. It’s been a fascinating lesson in the often subconscious ways that transformation surfaces in our art.

As I see it, “Quickly Aging Here,” bookends my time in Austin, where everything changed for the better — I hope it comes through in these songs.
Thanks for all the support, my friends, I hope you enjoy.

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Streaming on all platforms, link in bio ~
All Songs written, engineered, and mixed by Matthew Leger
Mastering on “Chic Directions,” “My Vandalism,” and “Spoon” by @boltonsound

With:
Drums on “Chic Directions” by @paulmccartney0fficial
Vocals on “My Vandalism” by @gabriellelopez
Guitar on “Spoon” by Aaron Quintanilla
Pedal Steel on “Park Shapes” by @nico_gonzo

Park Shapes

Spoon

My Vandalism

Chic Directions

if i could take this lucidity 
inside like a broken knee 
maybe they’d see 

cuz i don’t know if it’s true
that anybody can become new 
but i guess i’ll shoot 

i've done what can’t be undone 
but then again 
a daymoon slips down from the sky
the heart bleached like piss 
stained sheets reads miranda rights 
im starting new 
without you

lucidity

the third single from my forthcoming album "The Way We Were," out on Z Tapes 4/16

lyrics
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there's retching in the bathroom 
cut my fingers on the strings 
the way i make believe 
throw myself into everything 

i wanna take a trip through a gardenhead
grow stupid in the sun
shed my shirt like dead skin 
pirouette like nothings happened 

when they bob their heads like strawberries 
something bursts in me 
when they toss cold light across my chest
towels serenade sweetly 

watch em bristle and grow; light the way
feel it bubble & bloat, turn my head
it's not the way it's supposed to be 
then i feel her leg brushing over me 

flail your arms 
put up a fight 
if you go make sure we know

Matthew Leger

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