"My Kind of Thief"
Written by Malena Cadiz
Produced by Andrew Lappin
Engineered by Andrew Lappin
Mixed by Andrew Lappin
Mastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine)
String arrangement by Bryan Senti and Andrew Lappin Background vocal arrangement by Jenna Maranga
Artwork by Joel Hasemeyer
  
Brian Bender - cello
Malena Cadiz - lead vocals, electric guitar
Andrew Lappin - loops
Jenna Maranga - background vocals
Matt Musty - drums, percussion
Jason Abraham Roberts - electric guitar, acoustic guitar Bryan Senti - piano, violin, viola, tenor saxophone Aaron Michael Stern - bass guitar
Ray Suen - violin, viola

Lyrics:
I’ll wear the day like a fresh coat of paint 
On a seaside hotel
Bells in a tower ring on the hour
They ripple and swell
Strange conversations between old acquaintances 
Drift through the hall

And you take a photograph 
And everything stops 
Snapshot of our distance past 
Washed up on the rocks

You’re my kind of thief 
You never look back
You get what you need and that’s what you have
You travel light
Light as the breeze 
You’re out in the wild 
You’re my kind of thief

The girl at the bar
says she’ll read my cards if I buy her a drink
“Hanged man, two of swords 
See you’ve been here before but you’re still on the brink”
Palm trees are swaying a piano is playing
it smells like perfume
And you take a photograph

And everything stops 
Fragments of our distant past poured over the rocks

You’re my kind of thief 
You never look back
You get what you need and that’s what you have
You travel light
Light as the breeze 
You’re out in the wild 
You’re way out to sea 
You’re miles ahead 
Wait up for me

My Kind of Thief

"Easy"
Written by Malena Cadiz and David Turbeville
Produced by Andrew Lappin
Engineered by Andrew Lappin
Mixed by Andrew Lappin
Mastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine)
Background vocal arrangement by Jenna Maranga

Malena Cadiz - lead vocals
Andrew Lappin - bass guitar, Mellotron, Farfisa, Celeste Jenna Maranga - background vocals
Grant Milliken - vibraphone
Matt Musty - drums, percussion
Jason Abraham Roberts - electric guitar, acoustic guitar Bryan Senti - Wurlitzer
 
Let's you and me just be easy 
Let’s you and I just play nice
Let’s get our wires crossed 
Let’s get all high, lazy and lost 
let’s blow it all off
talk low, and not talk at all
you and me

Dust catching in the slanted light 
the city’s cold and crazy appetite 
curls back like a snake

Out on the street that same old pop and fizz 
is flat and far away on days like this
It’s what it was, it’s what it always is 
Beautiful and strange

Let's you and me just be easy 
Let’s you and I just play nice 
Let’s get our wires crossed 
Let’s get all high, lazy and lost let’s blow it all off
talk low, and not talk at all you and me

Conversation lags and sighs the heavy hours just tiptoe by 
We’ve got time in spades
And all the things that might have been 
All the ones we didn’t win
Spark and flash and fade back into that golden haze

Let's you and me just be easy 
Let’s you and I just play nice 
Let’s get our wires crossed 
Let’s get all high, lazy and lost let’s blow it all off
talk low, and not talk at all you and me

Easy

Stripped down "Blue Christmas" 
Written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson
Photo by Mikael Kennedy

Blue Christmas

Malena Cadiz 
Produced by Matt Bauer
Cover photo by Mikael Kennedy

(c) 2020 Malena Cadiz

Roadside Flowers in a plastic cup
the tide goes out and the sun comes up
in slivers through the blinds

Rain came down and the water rose
Swimming round in our birthday clothes
Out past the buoys where no one goes
You should have been there 
You should have been there

Wandering Stars in the parking lot
All you lose is all you got
Oh we got lots of time


Rain came down and the water rose
Swimming round in our birthday clothes
Out past the buoys where no one goes
You should have been there 
You should have been there

Malena Cadiz

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