This song was written by Marya Stark inspired by bones and a time before the internet. ‘Fly Away’ is evocative of prophecy, dreams, and the magic at midnight.

By this point, it was towards the end of summer months of 2020, several waves of chaos into the lockdown, and we were riding the many uprisings and divisions within the culture. 

Leah threw out the idea of needing respite from all the internet dumpster fires that were wreaking havoc on our online communities, and called for a song to reach into the healing power of our ancestral magics. Thus, the topic we chose was ‘bones’, with the style being that which was way before the internet. 

This song tells the story of a dream of a young woman who is being called into an initiation at the temple. She has visions of her sacred women kin dancing around in a star-stepping pattern as a practice of oracular divination and invocation prayer.

Cradle

Fly Away

"My first complete piece -December 2022"

Written and performed by Sahaja La'Akea (age 12)
Recorded by Sarah Bethany
Background instruments added by Raine Azure

Dreams Within Us

A real-life lullaby, for the real-life parent in the final battles of sleep deprivation. One written about the moment when you have tried EVERYTHING to just get your child to GO TO SLEEP!! Part playful, part honest attempt to pull that final transition to rest… drifting away in harmonics and by the celebratory end, swooping us all away to an actual dreamscape. Written by Leah Song.

Oh Darlin'

Watch Music Video: https://youtu.be/xz9i1QTBilM

i will keep the light on
so you know that i was home
if you hear my voice upon the wind
know i’m singing you a song

hear the humming of the trees around you
breathing peace into the air
theres a new moon the darkness blooming
makes the stars that much more clear
and the sky is scrying out yours dream now
tumbling down in puzzle light
ill draw any sort of creature for you
on which to take your flight

i will keep the light on
so you know’d i was home
if you hear my voice upon the wind
know im singing you a song

about the fireflies they're spying on you
i heard them whispering your name
telling stories of your heroism
and all the magic that you bring
and now their forming you a path to follow
lighting shadows one by one
bringing you back closer to me baby
so i can hold you in my arms

i will keep the light on
so you know’d i was home
if you hear my voice upon the wind
know im singing you a song

credits
Marya Stark- Composer, Guitar, Vocals, Sound Design, Production, Arrangements, Percussion
Andy Zenczak- Production, Engineer, Mixing, Percussion
Barry Phillips- Cello, Arrangements
Daniel Berkman- Kora, Ondomo
Cian Riordan- Mastering
Tessa Shields- Photography

Released March 24, 2023 on Beautiful Way Records

Keep The Light On

www.marya-stark.com

Woodstock
Written by Joni Mitchell
Performed and Arranged by Marya Stark and Barry Phillips
Mixed by Andy Zenczak at Gadgetbox Studios
Artwork by Tessa Shields

Out on Beautiful Way Records

Lyrics:
I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
I asked him where are you going
This he told me
"I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm 
I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band
I'm going to camp out on the land
I'm going to try an' get my soul free"

We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

Then can I walk beside you
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
I don't know who I am
But I know life is for learning

We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and a celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation

We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden

Woodstock ft. Barry Phillips (Joni Mitchell Cover)

New album from Good Lee, out Aug. 4, 2023 on Loci Records.

Buy / Stream:
https://locirecords.ffm.to/good-lee-a-world-within

A World Within

Turn To Roses

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Good Lee & Marya Stark - Turn To Roses

rain falls down 
on the face of a still lake
down pour
down pour

each drop carries the song
of a thousand years of rain
waters crack her open
kissing the heart of her name
and it sounds like
and its sounds like
like a cloudburst
cloudburst
cloudburst

oh rain down on me
touch every part of me with song

the lake in love with the cloud
calls out 
calls our
to her sky bound beloved

yet the cloud 
who’s very life is charged
to carry on the melodies of rain
has already blown away

such is the music of the lake and the sky
such is the music of water and the night
their love lives 
as a cloudburst
cloudburst
cloudburst

Marya Stark- Guitar, Vocals, Arrangements, Production, Percussion
Andy Zenczak- Engineering, Co-production, Bass, Percussion
Mixing at Gadgetbox Studios
Barry Phillips- Cello Arrangements
Daniel Berkman- Kora
Cian Riordan- Mastering
Tessa Shields- Artwork

Cloudburst

Composed, Performed, Produced and Arranged by Marya Stark
Cello Arrangements by Barry Phillips
Engineered and Mixed by Andy Zenczak at Gadgetbox Studios
Mastered by Cian Riordan
Artwork by Tessa Shields

did you catch a song upon the wind
or carve it from the stone
did you hear it coming o’er the mountain
or read its scripted bones

did you feel from the forgotten place
the space between your toes
did you taste the color of its melody
dance rhythm’s prose

did it come to you like lightning would
or slowly through the veil
did its sonnet climb right out your throat
from the darkness it escaped

did it take you on a journey through
the faces of your past
did the memories last long enough
to turn phrase from their grasp

did it chase you in your dream time
cast its burden on your chest
did it wake you ‘neath the moon light
did it even let you rest

did it startle you by telling truth
you sworn silence til your death
did you let it have its way with you
this music on your breath


how did the song come
how did the song come
how did the song come
how did the song come
how did the song come
how did the song come
how did the song
how did the song
how did the song

How Did The Song

A little song that came through as I was preparing for my next Women's Song Circle and remembering how good it feels to sing together... This is an invitation to lay your sorrows down and let your heart be free!

Medicine Songs

Come Sing with Us

Fairies

talk in a hush voice they might hear you
anytime the moon gets this way i go

fiddle liddle lover inda way, into double oh
fay to the four corners we go
fetid ever-light, inda way, inta canticle
fay to the four fates "fit flint foe!"

one coulda done what two did, crooked
two coulda run but two couldn'ta done what
four and a half did, lifted the bath
lifted the babe by the pull of the path
three fae to feed him, three fae to read him
three fae to fold his little white hat!

could he want a candy cane? could he want a cream?
could he want a fable? could he want a coolie tree?
could he want a gavel? could he want a cake or tea?
could he want? could he want?
what could he want could he want?

talk in a hush voice, they might hear you
anytime the moon gets this way i go

i heard a secret ring from a mountain
anytime the moon gets this way i go

fiddle liddle lover inda way, into double oh
fay to the four corners we go
fetid ever-light, inda way, inta canticle
fay to the four fates "fit flint foe!"

i no fay though, i am a bone thing
teeth tongue liver i've heard not seen

oh my, fiddle-i-knockin
inkla-ninagin inagin oh x4

fowles in the frith, fishes in the flood
and i mon waxe wode for best of bone and blood

fowles in the frith, fishes in the flood
and i mon waxe wode, i mon waxe wode

muche sorwe i walk with
muche sorwe i walk with
for best of bone and blood
for best of bone and blood

birds will find the forest fair
fishes fill the sea and i shall go mad
for sorrow walks with me
birds will find the forest fair
fishes fill the sea and i shall go mad
i shall go mad

muche sorwe i walk with
muche sorwe i walk with
for best of bone and blood
for best of bone and blood

j'entend le moulin, ticki ticki talka...

Fairies - with Balladir and Marya Stark

Look out!
Look out!
Look out for them sky pirates
sailin’ at the edge of a sunset
sailin’ through celestial seas
sailin’ through such thunderous cloud formations
sailin’ through such stormy weather
searchin’ for a fallen star

Her heart 
it is of high value 
her heart will bring eternal life 
if you posses it completely
you’ll have your immortal pill
capture her heart 
capture her soul
lightning in a bottle

I built a ship 
built me a ship out of a poem
inside this old whisky flask
I tied balloons to its neck
up it flew
up it flew!
past rains of liquor tears
past all the sky pirates 
and all of their earthly fears
I sent my message to the stars

Your song 
it is of high value
your song will bring eternal love 
in a brilliant flash
gone in an instant, gone forever
unless I catch your heart
capture your soul

If you fall, I will catch you
If you fall, I will catch you
keep your stardust on my altar
Keep your lightning in a bottle
Lightning in a bottle
Lightning in a bottle
Light, Sing in a bottle!

Music Credits:
Written, performed, and produced by Marya Stark
Guitar adapted from Carcassi 

Produced with Andy Zenzack at GadgetBox Studios
Patrick Brede - Assistant Engineer 
String Arrangements with Barry Phillips 
Mark Quinn- Drums and Percussion 
Christine Suits- Vocals 
Barry Phillips - Cello 
Chad Katlinger- Viola

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Lightning In A Bottle

"In the space between art and persona there is magic.  Marya Stark lives there. Drawing from influences as diverse as Classical, Broadway, Indie-Pop, Storytelling and Folk, Marya crafts a sound that is wholly original. As a multi-instrumentalist and multi-media enchantress, she creates the way she breathes; without choice or hesitation. She is a carrier of myth, mystery, and medicine songs with which she embarks to create a ceremony of the human condition, taking her audience on lucid journey's through the caverns of the soul. An award winning songwriter and soaring soprano, she is a mentor in the art of voice and archetypal embodiment. She is mused by kindness, nuance, synchronicity and soul remembrance, and is a life-long chaser waterfalls."