The music of Mathie fuses rock and song-writer sensibility. Determined to expose his individual and inspired style, this singer-songwriter engages listeners with personal and intimate songs. It is music born of inspiration.

Mathie’s diverse musical foundation has been influenced by jazz greats like Coltrane and Davis, Blues gurus such as John Lee Hooker, and an endless list of Rock icons including The Beatles, Dylan, The Rolling Stones, and Hendrix. Mathie also uniquely incorporates the spirit of his contemporaries, including David Gray, Dave Matthews, Ani DiFranco and John Mayer.

Credits:
Mathie has rocked: The Metro, Schuba's, Double Door, Abby Pub, The Beat Kitchen and Subterranean

Mathie has opened for: Dave Matthews Band, Chris Isaak, Natalie Merchant, and Neil Young

Mathie is currently touring Universities and Colleges through NACA.

Over 1,000 copies of “Supernumerary,” Mathie’s first self-produced album, have been sold.

Little Lighter

Highway 1 in the sun...
That?s where its summer time all the time.
?What are you running from?? She asked me so politely.
I thought I?d catch the coast with the most,
leave behind a dead friend?s ghost,
and try to lose track of time.

Its been a few years.
We drank beers of tears.
I wonder if you can feel how we used to feel about eachother..
Back then it was all cool summer nights.
It was a light life which we lived.

But we?ve given and lost in our separate ways
and the cost to pay is rising every day
there is a tidal wave coming down upon me.
Sentimentality can bring you to your knees if you breathe it in everyday,
but today I need to breathe it to survive underneath these waters.

These waters.......

I come to you...to find a piece of me... that I
lost a while back on the edge of a highway on which I have never been. And as the mud slides houses into the ocean,
I come to you cuz your motion.
I was hoping you could make me less heavy.
Cuz as you dance you ignore gravity so much better than me......

Being with you I can feel a little lighter
Being with you things look a little bit brighter
Being with you I can almost stand the sight of this place I swear
with just the sight of your face.

I?ll be anything and everything you want me to be.
Just as long as you believe in me.
One warning must go along so you
know what?s up when things go down.
I?m constantly bleeding.

Being with you I can feel a little lighter
Being with you things look a little bit brighter
Being with you I can almost stand the sight of this place I swear
with just the sight of your face

Being with you...a little bit lighter
Being with you...a little bit brighter

Pretty Far

I drove pretty far in my car
to tell you all the things that you are to me
I think that you know me by now and
the reason I came can?t be said out loud.

Its just an excuse the way I work so obtusely
but I?d rather have you touch me just to push me away,
than to say all I feel, mean all I say,
Have you say that you love me but in not the same way.

I?m such an intruder and I don?t want to lose you
and I think that you?re slipping away
I?m such an intruder but I hope the word is diluted
in your head, when you think of me.

Could you ever would you ever reach out and grasp me
its possible you will but highly unlikely
is this just another day for you?
A day a boy complicates as usual as he comes through.

Today we play this game
to see how much I?ll say
I can?t believe that you didn?t walk away
I?ll play cuz you sit and stay and let me play
so I?ll play this game

I said ?do you love him?"
?What kind of question is that?? you say.
?I said do you love him??
You said, ?No not just yet.

But I think I could, think I will, think I?m falling for the man
and besides I?m always here
and where have you been?

I avert my eyes
so I don?t pervert my mind with you
I shut my mouth from giving
to lose nothing that?s worth living.

If I don?t give it can?t live if it can?t live it can?t die...
and I?m sick of things dying so I won?t even try to say...
what I should say..
to you.

Okay So we?re friends
so we sleep back to back
while you sleep I kiss you on the back of your neck
you roll away lost in a dream it seems
I know you know what I mean
and now I won?t say what my role?s cast to say.
to you

I avert my eyes so I don?t pervert my mind with you
I shut my mouth from giving to lose nothing that?s worth living.
If I don?t give it can?t live if it can?t live it can?t die...and
I?m sick of things dying so I won?t even try to say...
what I should say...to you.

I wonder if I?m worth as much as half as much as you ?

Guess I didn?t drive all that far in my car.
Guess I didn?t say all the things that you are to me
soon enough so I?ll pray he?ll pass like the last one and
next time I come to town I?ll say what I?ve come to say.

Leaving Forever

I want a picture
I want a letter
A tape cassette with your favorite songs
So I can hear you better

I want your ribbons
I want your sweater
Your favorite T-shirt that you wear to bed
So I can have you around me whenever, wherever

Don't, don't you need
Like I need
Can't you see I'm leaving forever
Don't, don't you need
Like I need
Can't you see I'm leaving forever
Or doesn't it matter?

I want you forever
Or for never
Can't cut down the middle
Something so beautiful

and

In and out we go, we go, and here we go again
In and out we go, we go, and here we go again
In and out we go, we go, and here we go again
In and out we go, we go, and here we go again

In and out we go ,we go, I need you so deeply
We fit so perfectly I can't believe you forget me so easy
In and out we go, we go, I need you so deeply
We fit so perfectly I can't believe you forget me so easy

Don't, don't you need Like I need
Can't you see I'm leaving forever
Don't, don't you need Like I need
Can't you see I'm leaving forever
Or doesn't it matter?

So I gather, all of you I can handle
At the next stop maybe I'll call But its looking rather doubtful
I want a picture, I want a letter,
A tape cassette with your favorite songs
So I can hear you better

Proven

We went out to the gate
Not waiting for something to happen
Just an ordinary day.
In a way we took things for granted.
In such a child-like state.
Then again really we were just children
A Monster-Truck past by our way.
And you say ?What a crazy world which we live in.?
We go back to our playing.
The rock will be stars and the grass is the heavens
You?ve Proven all you?ve needed to Today

We went out to the lake.
To watch as the waves rise and fall.
This,This is our day.
To get away from the mounting pressures so tall.
A plane flies in the sky.
You say, What a crazy world which we live in.?
And we swim out to the breakers.
Swimming under water.
Swimming in the water.
And the Sand is your daughter and
Your eyes are the water.

You?ve Proven all you?ve needed to today.
You?ve proven all you?ve needed today.

Day, Day after Day.
I see you less and less but I know you so much better.
I love the ways you make me confess
All the secrets of my heart and smothered imagination.
You always tell me to undress,... my mind.
?You?ve got to be silly boy.
When it all just seems one big mess.
Think of Me and my Big Broke Toe
Popping out from my sandel.?

My Toe, is a Comedy.
The scar on my side a Tragedy.
The soles of my feet a History.
The back of my knee a Mystery.

And you?ve proven all you?ve needed to today
You?ve proven all you?ve needed today.