I hope this is understood as the compliment it is but sometimes your songs really do sound like songs from musicals! (so fun to sing) Also I hope you killed him

This is gonna be stuck in my head all week, and I can't complain it's great

This song is utterly cathartic, amazing job as always Sparkbird!

Im so happy with this song! its so fun. its the only song ive heard by Spark bird but its a BRILLIANT forst impression!

THIS IS EPIC!!! I NEED TO LISTEN TO MORE OF YOUR SONGSSSSS

Indie rock and folk for quiet days stuck inside. Updates every Wednesday with popular tracks in United States.

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Certain Birds

Living Ghost: Still Rising

Wolf House

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we never dated

A Thousand Songs About It All: Act 1 is out now!
Download/Stream: https://madilynmei.lnk.to/AThousandSongsAboutItAll
Album Merch + Vinyl & CD: https://shop.madilynmei.com/ 
 
Written and Performed by Madilyn Mei 
Produced and Mixed by Scrawny 
Mastered by Joe Hutchinson 
Video Animation by Scrawny 
Intro/Outro Animation by Madilyn Mei & Scrawny 
 
Lyrics:
I am a one man circus
I do everything 
So incredibly 
Since I’m the one that’s pullin all the strings
Give a bow
Tip your hat
Marvel at the fact
That there’s no list of writers on the screen
It’s just me, only me
 
Oooh
LA LA LA LA
Oooh
LA LA LA LA
 
I am the sole director
I’m the soul behind the show
Hell I AM the show
So give a clap, show some respect
Great job Mads, take five! Thanks Mads!
No prob Mads
I’m a gas, a lovely crowd
Make me laugh out loud
Even when no one else is around
 
I gotta do what I gotta do
I've got me and you’ve got you
If my shoulders were broad
I’d rule your world too
The fate of it all in my palms
You’d applaud
At the drop of a hat
You’d excuse all I do
I could dine at the Ritz in my birthday suit
But I’m hardly a man, and yet I’m hardly a girl
I’m the hand of God in my own little world
 
I am a one man circus
I’m the host if you will
And still I am also the tent
And the elephant in the room
My very own personal peanut gallery
And my own worst critic
And all my own five star reviews
I’m the spot with the best view
And can you guess it?
You’re also the best view!
 
Now you’re getting it!
 
Oooh
LA LA LA LA
Oooh
LA LA LA LA
 
I am a one man circus
I’m the singer and the song
And the writer and the dreamer
And the show that must go on
I’m the “silence all your cellphones please, yes even the buzz”
I’m the buzz that keeps me wanting more
And therefore coming back for more
Because 
 
I’ll always do what I gotta do
I’ve got me, I don't need you
No one can help even if they wanted to
I’m the player one and the player two
I’m the acrobat, I’m the net down below
Catching myself when I choose to let go
I’m the puppeteer and yet the puppet still
I’m a marionette at my very own will
I’m hardly a man, and yet I’m hardly a girl
I’m the hand of God in my own little world
 
I gotta do what I gotta do
I’ve got me and you've got you
Used to play the part well
But now it seems I forgot
You’ll never know who I am, who I’m not
Don’t look too close
Or it’ll seem odd
This world that you see
Can be quite the façade
You’ll still applaud
Not your job to ask
But backstage I know
I’m wearing a mask
 
And when I burn out
And I wish to be done
I’ll yank at my strings
It’s only Act 1

One Man Circus

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The Sound of You Laughing

Awfully Sad

Some Character Development

in times of great stress i turn to witchcraft. see three of swords by ratwyfe

i’m so scared that you won’t miss me

After the Ball

Kamahalan

Lyrics:
You dropped into my life
When I needed you most
That should’ve been the first red flag
You smiled at me like
A parasite in need of a host
Slipped a contract out of your bag
And when I frowned at the empty quill
You jabbed me with a dull syringe

I don’t like to be pressured
I don’t like to be pushed
I don’t like to be pressured
I don’t like to be pushed
I don’t like to be
Pressured pressured pressured pressured
Pressured pressured pressured pressured

It was an ominous start
But you said
The money came from your heart
And you only wanted
The very best for me
You wanted me to succeed
But in your own particular sense
At a particularly painful expense
The independence of my body and my mind
From the particulars
Of all your extracurriculars
The fog of obligation grew so thick
I couldn’t even breathe

I don’t like to be pressured
I don’t like to be pushed
I don’t like to be pressured
I don’t like to be pushed
I don’t like to be
Pressured pressured pressured pressured
Pressured pressured pressured pressured

Another twist of the knife
Another turn of the screw
Another perfect time
To thank myself
For drumming up the courage
To burn bridges with you
And for all the shit you talk about me
I should think
You would be thankful as well
But you just can’t seem to let it die
So we should probably discuss it
When I see you in hell
I’ve made a list of the grievances
That I never got a chance to air

I don’t like to be lied to
I don’t like to be tricked
I don’t like to be gaslit
I don’t like to be groped
I don’t like to be blackmailed
I don’t like to be stalked
I don’t like to be threatened
I don’t like to be trapped
I don’t like to be
Pressured pressured pressured pressured
Pressured pressured pressured pressured

Head Like A Nest

Grievances

Lyrics:
White wagtail on the shores of the Baltic Sea
Sifting through the sand
Wagtail, are you wagging at me?
Well, who else would it be?
Everyone's in Tent City sound asleep
Sound asleep

Fire burning in your hands
And never burning up

I could have told you sooner
I'm nobody
Nobody but me
Tremblingly, fiercely me
A lark scraping the sky
With a gimlet eye fixed on clarity
Beautiful clarity

Fire burning in my hands
And never burning up

You bloom into awakeness
And emerge into day
Actors in a play
Amber sun-flecked eyes
Surfing the waves

Fire burning at both ends
And never, ever burning down
Or burning skin
Down the dunes
Grains of time fall slowly
And we're all incapable of
Giving of giving of giving of giving
In

What A Lark!

Improvisation

musicvideo : https://youtu.be/k8l7dOzCkeM

[Verse]
별빛 아래 내 그림자
흔들리는 마음의 바다
너의 눈 속 우주가 보여

[Prechorus]
멀리 떠나지 마
내 손을 잡아줘

[Chorus]
우주와 나와 너와 나
끝없는 밤하늘 아래서
우주와 나와 너와 나
우린 하나가 돼

[Verse 2]
은하수 위를 걷는 꿈
모래알 속 숨겨진 빛
너와 함께라면 난 충분해

[Prechorus]
멀리 떠나지 마
내 곁에 있어줘

[Chorus]
우주와 나와 너와 나
끝없는 밤하늘 아래서
우주와 나와 너와 나
우린 하나가 돼

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