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Violet Light

by Maya de Vitry

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1.
Flowers 02:45
Tell me again how love got her name I wanna hear about how the flowers reached for the rain Tell me again how the world got sad The part where you say you love somebody but you treat them bad This world was never mine This world was never yours This world has never seen a place treated so unkind And called it love before Mama I just cry when I hear that song It always breaks my heart to hear we treated her so wrong But tell me again, so I don't forget Tell me over and over til it settles in my head Maya de Vitry: vocals Paul Horton: nord keyboard (rhodes) Julia Harguindey: bassoon Jordan Perlson: drums, percussion Ethan Jodziewicz: electric bass
2.
For a little while longer now it just might need to be like this Where going anywhere feels like walking high on a wire in the wind It's hard to leave any story when it's over Without dying to hear it again Oh if only we could find the door to meet outside the past Would I believe my heart when she promises to last Beating out beyond me on the sand A fish out of water in your hand Give it an hour, give it a day Give it a summer, aw, give it a year There's just something about living without There's just no way around Real time And real tears So I give my pain a window now, I give my pain a door I give anything to know if she's ever been anywhere like this before And yes I give her sunlight and water And when she asks I always give her more Maya de Vitry: vocals, acoustic guitar Lyle de Vitry: acoustic guitar Monica de Vitry: harmony vocals Nina de Vitry: harmony vocals
3.
I never dreamed I'd ask what I need now That he could dare to watch if I fall down And I don't come back up out of the ocean laughing He can love me to the blood, he can love me to the bone But there's still some roads I gotta go alone And there's still some nights I'm gonna be the only one crying Oh but I'm so happy knowing how much more I wanna give Yeah and I'm so happy knowing just how bad I wanna live It doesn't matter if my mind goes racing on ahead Only place for my heart is the very next step Only place for my hands is holding to the ground around me I was lost from my body even worse than I thought Now I love her more than ever yeah she's all that I've got And whatever she tells me she needs, that's what I'm doing Here on my knees on the wet red clay Death sings below in the ocean All you goats and angels I'm not dying today I'm not dying today, I'm not dying Maya de Vitry: vocals, electric guitar Shelby Means: harmony vocals Joel Timmons: harmony vocals Jen Gunderman: nord keyboard (wurlitzer, organ) Jason Burger: drums, percussion Ethan Jodziewicz: electric bass, electric guitar
4.
Dogs Run On 03:36
When I get home we'll go to the lake Watch the show on the water the sunset makes It'll be.a little too cold to swim But we can sit and think about summer coming I'll throw skippers and you'll sniff logs And if it's one of those parks where they don't allow dogs Like old times we won't read that sign If no one sees us there's no fine I could go out looking in my memory As if that's where you'd go, as if that's where you'd be Then I see that shadow leap across the bright white snow Right in the middle of my heart Where I'm missing you the most You're there forever, you're there right now Sleeping on the porch on the side of the house Stretched out laying in a long line You must have turned into sunshine Big heart shining through black fur Like you know love's not made for words Like you know love is never gone Days pass away but dogs run on Maya de Vitry: vocals, acoustic guitar Kristin Andreassen: harmony vocals Chris Eldridge: harmony vocals, acoustic guitar Ethan Jodziewicz: bass, foot percussion
5.
It's not a trick of the eye She said goodnight There was no reason for goodbye No reason for goodbye It's not a trick of the eye To love so much And have to leave them all behind Have to leave them all behind It's not a trick of the eye We are no butterflies We do not have the eyes for violet light But I sure did see an innocent man shot dead on the street that night It's not a trick of the eye The flashing lights His empty hand up to the sky Had his hands held to the sky It's not a trick of the eye Not a trick of the light It's like they wanted him to die It's like they wanted him to die Maya de Vitry: vocals, electric guitar Paul Horton: nord keyboard (rhodes, synthesizer) Ethan Jodziewicz: electric bass Mark Raudabaugh: drums, percussion
6.
When I see you fly so free and far For me, he said, it's just too hard How I cried that night when I clipped my wings So he could be there when I sing I was a dreamer I was a girl Oh the ways we try to love in this world I got as small as he asked me to Like it was what I had to do I don't ask trees why they need so much time to grow I don't ask hearts why they need so much time to know Well I hid my tears, I did my best Didn't know I got that lost I guess In all those years there was no home Like flying on the air alone I didn't tell you when I knew I could I didn't leave him when I knew I should When the sky was copper and full of birds I heard their songs and I knew the words Maya de Vitry: vocals, banjo Tristan Clarridge: cello Ben Cosgrove: piano
7.
Margaret 03:00
I am a daughter, a sister, a mother For a long time I was a wife I've had squirrels in my ceiling and heartache and healing Oh I've had a beautiful life I thank the heavens I still have the memories I run my hands over all the stitches and seams We don't have many new conversations these days Except when he visits my dreams What can I say, just be good to your sweethearts and gardens Be good to your dogs and your faraway friends When you find bits of light, hold on to them tight You'll need all of them when your world changes again When your story gets torn and some pages go missing When your plans turn to geese and leave you behind When the prize that you find is that one day you realize The world isn't reading your mind Maya de Vitry: vocals, acoustic guitar Ric Robertson: harmony vocals, mandolin Thor Davidsson: harmonica Ethan Jodziewicz: bass
8.
In the hidden hills of Pittsburgh, way up above the streets They were on their way to Montreal, or bound for New Orleans We were westbound in a Saturn, west and everywhere between Once you hear about those trains you ride forever in your dreams Cory knew the songs, he had his own guitar Ellie knit and sang a bit and let the strangers talk Nick played spoons and I played fiddle, we slept under the stars Where one Arizona sunrise stays forever in your heart When you go out on that road You never quite come back There's a river runs right through you It's never on the map Mr. Cash what do we owe you for those tickets to the west We sang your songs for oranges and mac and cheese and bread Oh the dew of Colorado is still my favorite coldest bed Yes all across this country there's a place to lay your head Maya de Vitry: vocals, acoustic guitar, fiddle Jen Gunderman: nord keyboard (wurlitzer, mellotron, organ) Ethan Jodziewicz: unison vocals, bass, electric guitar Jason Burger: drums, percussion
9.
If walls could talk Well I'd be asking Anybody up top with any better ideas About where to go from here I'm trying not to lose too much sleep On too many nights for too many years Pretty busy down here just pouring time Like water through the gears Gotta hand it to em it's a good machine Who cares if it's running dirty or clean As long as it's making parking spots And watches out of diamonds If I could fly Well I'd be going Get up a couple miles, clear my mind Get a better sense of the scene Maybe then I'd have a little better chance of landing Like a bird in the middle of the rising sea Picking up a passing dollar in my beak Like I don't know what in the world it means Maya de Vitry: vocals, acoustic guitar, kazoo Ethan Jodziewicz: harmony vocals, kick drum, sleigh bells, body percussion
10.
You need someone who's still afraid to send the letter that she wrote Someone afraid of the water, afraid of the boat You need someone who believes you when you tell her that she needs you Tell her you're the only way, tell her it's crazy but it's true But you don't need me You don't need me You need someone who's never had the chance to walk out on her soul Yeah you need to be the castle so the world can be the cold Someone who hangs her head for asking and believes you when you say She can't make it on her own it just doesn't work that way Tell her that's the way it's done, tell her that's the way it goes Never mind what she wanted, never mind what she knows Somehow the gate doesn't open until you turn the key Find someone who believes how romantic that can be Maya de Vitry: vocals, acoustic guitar Chris Lippincott: pedal steel Ethan Jodziewicz: singing bowl
11.
If it's what you need any road can be walked alone I just thought this might be a place to walk each other home I just thought this might be the world where tenderness grows in the rain I just thought this might be the time to ease each other's pain These are leftover tears from the day I was born They slip out sometimes when I don't know what to make of this world I thought we might want to be holding each other by now And if not with our arms, however we figure out how I just know I long to be there for you and you for me This might be the time we paint the world we'd rather see These are leftover tears from the day I was born They slip out sometimes when I don't recognize this world Maya de Vitry: lead vocals, choir vocals, acoustic guitar Kaia Kater-Hurst: harmony vocals Ethan Jodziewicz: bass, choir vocals, synthesizer R. Aaron Walters: vibraphone Jamie Dick: drums

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Produced by Ethan Jodziewicz & Maya de Vitry

Engineered and Mixed by Ethan Jodziewicz at The Secret Woods in Nashville, TN

Mastered by Dave Sinko in Nashville, TN

All tracks arranged by Maya de Vitry & Ethan Jodziewicz

All songs written by Maya Elizabeth de Vitry (BMI)

Layout, Design, and Artwork by Kelley Wills

Additional Engineering by:
Jason Burger in Brooklyn, NY (drums and percussion on 3 and 6)
Tristan Clarridge in Forks of Salmon, CA (cello on 6)
Ben Cosgrove in Portland, ME (piano on 6)
Paul Horton in Fort Lauderdale, FL (keyboards on 1 and 5)
Kaia Kater-Hurst in Toronto, ON, Canada (harmony vocals on 11)
Trausti Laufdal at TLA Studios in Reykjavik, Iceland (harmonica on 7)
Monica de Vitry in Lancaster, PA (harmony vocals on 2)

THANK YOU
To the following people who in their own way (from loaning mics, gear, advice, feedback...) made these recordings possible: Aaron Walters, Dan Knobler, Dave Sinko, Alex Wilder, Chris Lippincott, Russell Hegedorn, David Beaman, Shanti Phoebe Hunt, Daniel Rice, Caitlin Canty, and Ann & Pierre de Vitry. Thank you also to the musicians who played on tracks that were not included on this album - Tatiana Hargreaves, Courtney Hartman, Sierra Hull, Christian Sedelmyer, David Williford. - Maya & Ethan

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released January 28, 2022

*Each track on the album features a unique band. Track-by-track band credits are listed below the lyrics for each song. Here is the list of all musicians involved in the project.*

Maya de Vitry (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, violin, kazoo)

with:

Kristin Andreassen (harmony vocals)
Jason Burger (drums, percussion)
Tristan Clarridge (cello)
Ben Cosgrove (piano)
Thor Davidsson (harmonica)
Jamie Dick (drums)
Chris Eldridge (acoustic guitar, harmony vocals)
Jen Gunderman (keyboards)
Julia Harguindey (bassoon)
Paul Horton (keyboards)
Ethan Jodziewicz (upright bass, electric bass, electric guitar, synthesizer, harmony vocals, foot percussion, singing bowl, kick drum, sleigh bells, body percussion)
Kaia Kater-Hurst (harmony vocals)
Chris Lippincott (pedal steel)
Shelby Means (hramony vocals)
Jordan Perlson (drums, percussion)
Mark Raudabaugh (drums, percussion)
Ric Roberston (mandolin, harmony vocals)
Joel Timmons (harmony vocals)
Lyle de Vitry (acoustic guitar)
Monica de Vitry (harmony vocals)
Nina de Vitry (harmony vocals)
R. Aaron Walters (vibraphone)

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Maya de Vitry Nashville, Tennessee

Maya de Vitry is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. She lives in Nashville, TN.


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