Purple Sky is an EP recorded in 2006 by Mattie May when she had a really crappy job that she hated.

Written and recorded by Mattie May (2006)

The inevitable collision of the twain

Purple Sky

Flowers Reprise

The line has no front
it has no front
we're all standing behind each other


Written and recorded by Mattie May (2006)

The Line

All the nation's advertisers
tell you what to do
and you go to your job every day
and the motion of air between our lips
is alive with nothing at all
on the highways
in the faceless constructions that define us
and define us and define us and define
and define us and define us and define
until everyone you meet is you.

Among the refuse
amid the meaningless facade
that assaults you
and consumes you and assails you
and berates you
and impales you and consumes you
until everywhere you go
everywhere you go
you've been before


Music & lyrics (c) 2006 Mattie May 
Recording (c) 2006 Mattie May

All the nation's advertisers

And we awaken to the shadows of the air between us
and the hours are the slippery mountains
that we keep sliding down.

Time is languourous and weighty
building inverse mountains
while I creep into the long slow fountain of living;
a tiny insect martyred
on thick threads of carpet
looming and leering
down upon us


Music, lyrics & recording (c) 2006 Mattie May

Shadows of the air between us

There's no flowers
to photograph
in the fall
they've all melted away
like the feelings of another day;
but in the warm snow
falling in latent drops
of a melted past
on a cold afternoon
we stand
here again
where tomorrow once gave us hope
tomorrow once gave us hope
for things not rearranged.

Music and lyrics by Mattie May (c) 2006 
Released 2024

Flowers

(c) 2022 Mattie May Lintzenich

Time took flight from the places you remember
strange new memories reflect the sun
the street you played on didn't know you
it was afraid because you were unfamiliar. 
The time you knew 
moved on through old expanses 
born in light that warmed your face
clear as now in the strong arms of space. 

I'd wanted it to stay, but it was only passing through on its way.

On its way

Alas, time and space

I missed ya
in the long
time 
between
the last
time 
I saw ya
and now.

I missed ya
in the wide
open space
we went through
to get to
here.

(c) 2021, 2025 Mattie May

12-string guitar: Heather Love

Here (I missed ya!)

Words and music (c) 2019 Matt Lintzenich

Someday
the empty ocean blue above us
will love us.

Someday
the remains of the day
will wrap itself around us
and we'll know it's true.

Someday,
you'll see,
everything we ever wanted
will find us.

Someday
when we awaken
in the glow
we'll overgrow
like the great dandelion
lawn overthrow

and the world will find out
how beautiful it us.

Someday
the tears of rain
that magnify the soft light
of the moon
in our eyes
will fall upon us
and hug us,

and we'll know its true.

Someday

Words and music (c) 2019 Mattie Lintzenich

I found myself
in the aisle of dreams
lookin' for a cure I couldn't find
for the things that berate me
in the corners of my mind

and I was thinkin'
when I found my long-lost ghost

(chorus)
There were sunbeams
that forgot to gleam
streams that can't remember
how to flow
or where to go
teeming with moonbeams.

But I left them there
in the muddy gloom
and exited the room.

And I was thinkin'
about the time I rode my bike
down a gauntlet
to see a friend,
and when I reached the end
the medicine kicked in,
I fell asleep in his chair
while he sat there.

(chorus)

We were watching 
something on the TV
in his room,
but I left him there
in the ancient light
lookin' at me
asleep in his seat
dreamin' of the night.

And I was thinkin'
when I found my long-lost ghost

There were sunbeams
that forgot to dream,
streams that can't remember
how to flow
or where to go,
teeming with moonbeams.

Fire up the sun

Moonbeams (acoustic demo)

Words and music (c) 2019 Matt Lintzenich

I was so damn sad
when I went to bed
on Christmas night
because I yearned
for a perfect friend
to cast aside
the worries of the world
beside
and travel round
the mysteries of the days
colliding
in a trail of light
in a dark expanse
made from endless moments
and the dance of circumstance.

I felt so alone
while the folks downstairs
listened to their TV
and I prayed
that the day would find its way
into the world inside
my aching mind
that yelled at me and cried.

And someone
somewhere dreamed
about the day
where bright reflections
seemed to find each other
in the smile of the night.

So damn Flan

So damn sad

Beyond the dawn demo (c) 2018 Matt Lintzenich

I had a dream that you were sad,
as the suns rose in the early light
and chased the soft remains of sleep from the night
while the walls grew bright.

I had a dream that you were sad;
it filled my heart with a prayer,
and it echoed there,
beyond the dawn, in the rays of a new sun.

The upcoming future album after the one that hasn't been released yet

Beyond the dawn (acoustic demo)

A multicolored shimmer hovering beautifully at the edge of creation.

Mattie May

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