Woman By Amber Lily Official Music Video

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

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'

you told me everything I longed to hear
you brought the sky down 
that I might feel her constellations
the wild winds were moving, ecstatic visions came
mystic phrases revealing every inch of her temptation

you showed me a dream that I’d long forgot
a garden so rare, her flowers restored my innocence
for a moment it seemed our souls were being brought
together to give form to the ones who lives were to be born from our love 
  
and I was only human  
I could not resist
I was only human   
longing for bliss 
just a hot blooded woman
what am I to do
a part of me still waits for you
in that garden under the moon

once I was a believer in stories of great love
designs of a feverish light on eyes of giants
where ancient flames were rising, fashioned as twins
well babe I’ve had soul mate or two
but damn I thought you might be it

and I was only human
I could not resist
I was only human
longing for bliss
just a hot blooded woman
what am I to do
a part of me still waits for you
in that garden under the moon 

holy wild revive me
all of this emotion and writhing beauty
prophecies unbind me I can only keep
a secret for so long

and I was only human
I could not resist
I was only human
longing for bliss
just a hot blooded woman
what am I to do
a part of me still waits for you
under the moon

Only Human

Lydia Violet's debut album, "Already Free," inspired by traditions of roots, folk, and protest music. 

Lullaby

Black As Night

Bone Shaman Woman 
dance out the hate in my heart 
smile with your bleeding womb 
on the earth 
giving birth to me 
over and over again 

Crow Sighted Mystic 
come and take me on your flight 
once more 
our old way of communicating 
its changing 
lets make amends 
before it all 

breaks loose 
breaks loose 
breaks loose 
breaks loose 

Bone Shaman Woman 
shake your fist at the fire 
weep out the salt of wounds 
from the core 
may there be no more 

Old Story Keeper 
fall to the sound of the beat of this drum 
whisper your unspoken tales 
through your undulating trance 

break us loose 
break us loose 
break us loose 
break us loose 

Bone Shaman Woman 
Bone Shaman Woman 
Bone Shaman Woman
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Written by Marya Stark 
Produced by Scarlet Crow 
Co-Produced and Mixed by David Earl 
Additional Production Kalya Scintilla 
Marya Stark Vocals, Guitar 
Mama Crow Vocals, Bones, Shakers 
Mastered by Shawn Hatfield at AudibleOddities 
Photo: Roby Behrens

Bone Shaman Woman

Official Music Video Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbHVwtreym8

You leave this road behind you
far enough that no one catches your trail
the only thing I have to find you
is a telegram you dropped off in the mail
It Reads:

“She’s the only one
the only one I’ve ever loved
the one I left back at the crossroads
keeper of many keys
she is the midnight queen
How I loved her so
she holds my heart in spades”

Your dark enchanting mistress
sees the smoke and she feels the fires burn
and the spark of her holocaust
lights the very rainbow trail for which you yearn

She’s the only one
the only one you’ve ever loved
the one you left back at the crossroads
keeper of many keys
she is the midnight queen
How you loved her so
she holds your heart in spades

She is called by many names
Hecate, Oh Persephone, Inanna, Ishtar, 
and Scarlet Moon 
well go ahead! 
call her many names!
maybe I’ll appear before you too 
You leave this road behind you
as you make your way to find your holy grail
Scarlet! Scarlet! Scarlet!

IF she’s the only one
the only one you ever loved
why’d you leave her at the crossroads
singing songs for stars 
dividing earthly skies 
shooting prose in arrows 
from bows of promises you made

If I’m the only one, 
the only one you’ve ever loved
why’d you leave me at the crossroads
tending  karmic seeds
in the garden of your prophecies
while licking honey off the edges 
of razor blades
Scarlet! Scarlet! Scarlet!


name your price

Crossroads

'In Between' is the second single off of the upcoming album 'Sapphire'

Marya Stark: Vocals, Guitar, Lyrics, Co-Production 
Joshua Penman: Production and Arrangement 
Andy Zenzack: Mixing and Engineering 
Mark Quinn: Percussion 
Charith Prema: Viola 
Guillermo Laporta: Penny Wistle


I’ve got all the wonders of the world at my fingers 
but none of them bring me closer to the truth 
I’ve pulled cards from the decks 
to read my soul in the scriptures 
but the pictures couldn’t show me what to do 

its been a long night 
and i just a fragile fire 

I have pulled the sword from stone 
and it was heavy, heavy 
I’ve carved flutes from hollow bones 
and now I'm ready, ready 
to mourn the death of stars 
Watch em’ go out with a bang 
And i’ll sing every song 
that was shone 

in between 
in between 
in between 
in between 

I bow, I bow my soul a seeker 
I have sought to know this life and death the same 
and every single thing that I have come to feel here 
Well I barely have the strength to sing 

My voice cracks at the sound of your name 
but as I speak so does the flame 

I have pulled the sword from stone 
and it was heavy, heavy 
I’ve carved flutes from hollow bones 
and now I'm ready, ready 
to mourn the death of stars 
Watch em’ go out with a bang 
And i’ll sing every song 
that was shone 

in between 
in between 
in between 
in between 

its been a long night 
and i’m just a fragile fire

In Between

Dear Family,

When I wrote my new single “We Are Safe”, I was scared out of my wits.

This year like most everyone...  I witnessed situations, events and traumatic images, both personally and globally, the magnitude of which I never could have ever before imagined. 

There were too many moments to count when the world I woke up to became unrecognizable and looking very much like a nightmare. 

In a time when myself and my closest friends and family felt most terrified, I finally reached a breaking point where I could no longer tolerate another moment of being suffocated by the fear that had consumed me. 

While at the same time feeling so completely powerless, I wanted to take a stand and most sincerely try to at least make an attempt to contribute something to the planet that could be of help and assistance to those of us who wanted to regain and return to a place of strength within, self reliance, safety and healing from this avalanche of trauma both in the present and from the ghosts of my past unresolved that kept turning up in my psyche throughout this year like ghouls from a classic Stephen King horror novel. 

I discovered there were many places in my being of grief from my childhood still unhealed. This year has unearthed and uprooted so much. 

This song is a prayer, an affirmation, a mantra and ultimately a statement of hope. My wish for all of us, is that this song is of help during those isolating moments of fear, doubt, when it appears that all is lost and we may feel left alone where there is no where else to turn. 

Ultimately this song is an anthem of Faith and the inner journey of developing the belief in the possibility of arriving at the moment where reconciliation within becomes reality. 

Even as I share this and as the song is being released into the world, fires in California are raging... sacred land inhabited by some of my dearest friends and inspirational leaders of sacred music who have now been ordered to evacuate without any certainty that they will have a home to return to. 

My heart continues to ache and it is only through my daily spiritual practice and my unwavering belief in the power of Music itself, that I haven’t broken to the point where I’ve become paralyzed/immobilized in the face of the year I never expected to find myself or any of us in. 

Thank you for listening and receiving this music and whatever elixir it may contain for you. Please keep up the fight to keep your heart open, even in the moments where it feels and appears that that the world is conspiring to crush it. And know without a doubt that I am in your corner fighting along side with you, with the hope and the faith that we will ALL live to see the day arrive where we can be reunited together again and sing this song to each other. 

I’ll look forward to meetIng you there and hearing how loud WE will sing. 

From my heart to yours,

Mikey

We Are Safe

8/21/2020

Pachamama – Beautiful Chorus

"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."

Only Human

Marya Stark

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