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Blue Heart

by Maya Solovey

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1.
With You 02:39
WITH YOU Hey, step inside a rain storm Air is feeling so warm, right here with you I told you bout a tower I made out of flowers Isn’t it cool. You were flicking my jeans I was talkin bout lots of mostly nothing Darling say that its forever You’re my perfect weather Right here with you. Now when I try to think A new reality starts to intrude There, underneath the mud I see a perfect love What can I do. You are meadows and streams Might I live in these beautiful surroundings Darlin tell me it ain’t over You’re my four leaf clover Stickin with you. Yeah, livin in a big ‘ol world With a brand new love. You were flickin my jeans I was tellin you lots of mostly nothing Darlin never say its over You’re my four leaf clover Stickin with you Darlin say that its forever You my perfect weather Right here with you. Livin in a big ‘ol world With a brand new love.
2.
Still 02:09
STILL I shot that good girl down way back in 2002 With a red rose bit down ‘tween her teeth and a dress of ribbons blue She was kind to you, had a mind of gold and eyes like a crystal bowl But that was long, long ago. I wake up, take a look in the mirror Don’t recognize my face I wander ‘round these halls and don’t hear when you call my name On the fogged up glass of all my actions I draw words that are true: That I still love you. We were young, and I was so kind Please take me now, for who I am On both sides. And it was not long ago That I loved you I still love you so.
3.
Blue Heart 03:21
BLUE HEART Feel like you could find me? Look a little bit more. Feel like you could find me? Better look in the back door. Feel like you could find me And what I have in store Just when you think you know me Look a little bit more. Cause inside I know There lies A cold blue heart Dark with the memory of you. He could never see me Never looked through my eyes He could never see me Through his own lies You think that you could find me Through all of the disguise? But know that I am not yours You’ll never be mine. Cause inside I know There lies A cold blue heart Dark with the memory of you. How could you ever know me If you never looked through me? But I’m just as much a coward. My love lies stacked on the mantle In unsent letters, stamped, sealed Never delivered. Feel like you could find me? Look a little bit more… Cause inside I know There lies A cold blue heart Dark with the memory of you.
4.
Judy Gumtree 02:57
JUDY GUMTREE Judy Gumtree Knows the galaxy She can read all the signs She waits for a collision An end she can design Says ‘its much bigger than me’ There comes a certain day And when it does, you’ll know because Your mind goes up in flames. Judy is it worth it? Let the days unearth it Blue and frozen rock of time. If you get a tip Let me know about it Tell me its not alright The windows now are filthy The chalkboard fully white Yeah its so thick you can’t see So why must she pretend? For when you choose a life of doom, each minute is the end. And just like Europa Its a buried ocean Blue and frozen Sea of time Judy is it worth it? Let the days unearth it Blue and frozen rock of time.
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BODY LANGUAGE Why you gotta stay so late Why you gotta always be the last one standing I draw you in a figure eight With my one eye closed, you are my cue blasting Rolling down the sides of my legs I feel them one by one, all your fingers crawling All the way Now down my spine In all you say Speaking my Body Language. Body language Tell me your best sign And I’ll tell you mine In your best body language. Is that a stripe across your face? Cause I know mine’s a solid red a flushing Don’t you know its not a race? Whoever goes the slowest Wins a little white Russian…. All the way Now down my spine In all you say Speaking my Body Language. Body language Tell me your best sign And I’ll tell you mine In your best body language. ooohh ohhh… So all the way Now down my spine In all you say Speaking my Body Language. Body language Tell me your best sign And I’ll tell you mine Give me a straight line And I’ll circle with a rhyme In your best body language.
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RUNNING FROM A RAINY DAY If most days feel like Moving in a dream Can I Fly above the trees Dive into the deep Up and down up and down Or find starlight this time Everyone should do his thing I can take a tiny song Send it into outer space Where no one will hear it I’m running from a rainy day. So go away. If these times Feel like Running out of breath Is it easier to sleep Or fall upon your knees Every day every day Or can I take flight This time? Every man will run his race I can try to move along And though I love you dearly Look, but don’t come near me. I’m running from a rainy day So go away. Everyone should do his thing I can take a tiny song Send it into outer space Where no one will hear it I’m running from a rainy day. So go away.
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CACHORRO QUENTE Quando eu era uma garotinha Sabia que ansiava por algo Sabia que havia outro parte de mim fora Mesmo antes de te conhecer Eu sabia que pertenciamos juntos Sabia que você era para mim E Eu era prâ você. Separados, nao eramos nada Mas juntos, somos nada menos que divino Você é carne, eu sou o pão, e juntos Somos um cachorro quente. Antes de te conhecer, meu mundo era pequeno Antes de te conhecer, o sol era oscuro Antes eu nunca soube o quão bonito o mundo é É antes de voçê, eu nunca soube O quão bela eu sou. Separados, nao eramos nada Mas juntos, Somos nada menos que divino Você é carne, eu sou o pão, e juntos Somos um cachorro quente. E agora que estamos juntos Eu sei que nunca vamos cumprir O nosso propósito pleno Até que não somos mais. HOT DOG When I was a little girl I knew I longed for something When I was a little girl I knew there was another part of me out there, somewhere Even before I met you I knew we belonged together I knew that you were for me And I was for you. Separate, we were nothing. But together We are nothing short of divine You are meat I am bread Together, we are A hot dog. Before I knew you My world was so small Before I knew you The sun was so dark Before you I never knew how beautiful the world really is Before you I never knew How beautiful I am. Separate, we were nothing. But together We are nothing short of divine You are meat I am bread Together, we are A hot dog. And now that we are together I know That we will never fulfill our true purpose Until we are no more.
8.
Karula 03:05
KARULA Karula Skin touched by gold in the night Sunlight on her thighs Tender half moon smile And all the while Keeping her words inside So all they say about Karula, is fine. Karula. Karula Midnight child all alone Skipping stones of her dreams Keeping her legs in between Her mother’s eyes, rising tides She’s singing. Karula, Karula. Karula finally says: “Look at who I am I’m not the lily on the pad I can’t stand pretty things And I always say the wrong thing, always… Like, I don’t like basmati rice I touch myself in the night And I’m not as kind, Kind as I would like.” Karula.
9.
Better 04:21
BETTER Sometimes it seems like the end— But I know better, I know better. Sometimes it seems like I can’t find a friend But I know better, I know better Sometimes it seems like no the world can’t really mean it like that Sometimes I see clearly, sometimes- I can’t feel anything yet Not till afternoon. Sometimes it seems like all was green is now gold Sometimes I think even I’m getting old Can the world seem so cold oh mother she told me “Darling don’t worry, it’s all on loan.” And you, you know better, you know better. Sometimes you tell me there’s no more to say Sometimes you tell me it was all a mistake Sometimes the rain comes I can’t make the pain something That you can’t feel I can only Tend your wounds Sweet as I can be.. And I’ll be, I’ll be better I’ll be better. Sometimes it feels like no one can be free But we, we know better, we know better. Sometimes the cage isn’t one you can see But we, we know better, we know better. Sometimes the man comes down hard You’ve got to stand up together put your hands up and Let us all be free— Can’t you see We know better, we know better. Can’t you see We know better, we know better.
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COME HOME SOON I have watched from watch towers up on high For the light shimmering in your eyes For the ships arriving out of the east Carrying my love, carry him please He is looking afar, at the same Northern Star Looking out of his room, at the same waning moon Come home soon. Crossing off the days on the calendar wall I watch the hands turning the clock I recall that day when you said to me Everyone must serve their country. I’ll be looking afar, at the same Northern Star Looking out of my room, at the same waning moon I’ll be home soon. So one lonesome day when the trees were ‘a flower My love came home in the morning hour He had roses in hand, one dozen white And he said my name as he looked in my eyes, I was looking afar, you are my Northern Star Looking out of my room, was your face in the full moon I came home soon. His eyes were the same clear crystal blue But he was no longer the man I knew He stared all day of into space He did not hear when I called his name I looked all day and I tried to find But the light was gone Gone from his eyes. You are further afar than that lonesome Northern Star I’m alone as the moon, and you’re here Here in our room. Please come home soon.
11.
Family Tree 03:24
FAMILY TREE If I were to go on that lonesome road And take all my memories of you If I were to put them all in a bag And throw them on my back Would you let me go then, well would you? Sometimes our secrets look back at us in places we don’t expect them to Sometimes our memories look back at us in faces we don’t expect them to Sometimes our lives show us sides of ourselves We never even knew. I look in the mirror And I see your eyes And your half crooked smile I feel you in my walk And the way that I talk When I answer the phone they think I am you. Sometimes our secrets look back at us in places we don’t expect them to Sometimes our memories look back at us in faces we don’t expect them to Sometimes our lives show us sides of ourselves We never even knew. If you only knew how much I love you Then you’d understand why I can’t be with you.
12.
Further West 02:57
FURTHER WEST (A response song to the Felice Brothers’ “Her Eyes Dart Round”). Well if you look further west to the orange and reds Where the tree trunks have grown out of nothing but stone That’s where my love resides in the black candlelight In the fall of our death, when the world went to rest. Well you picked up a stone, said “see this is my home. I’m a man of the wild, I’m forever a child.” “I can’t be with no one, who don’t carry a gun. I live for the eyes of the one I won’t find.” Oh lie de lie lie, oh Lord I did lie. With my boots strapped on, I made a grown man cry Cause I became him, and he became me And it grew hard to tell who’s heart had failed. So if you look further west where the sun goes to rest Out where the wind blows over nothing but stone That’s where my love was born, on one clear cold morn That’s where my love died, as you turned your eyes.

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Joining together with her talented friends, Maya Solovey recorded her latest album "Blue Heart" in ten days.

Enlisting Hank Sullivant and James Richardson of MGMT, Robert "Chicken" Burke of George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, and multi-grammy winning producer "Bassy" Bob Brockmann, together the band produced 13 songs, ranging from rocking foot-stompers such as the album's namesake "Blue Heart" to laid back southern grooves like "Body Language", reeling into Quentin Tarentino-esque sardonic sagas of her famed song "Cachorro Quente", (which means Hot Dog in Portuguese) to the most intimate and emotive folk ballads such as "Better" and "Further West". All put together the album does what an album sets out to do-- lead the listener on a journey, while carefully guiding every step.

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released November 18, 2016

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Produced by Bassy Bob Brockmann
Recorded by Bassy Bob Brockmann and Chris Bittner at Applehead Studios, Woodstock NY
Mixed by Bassy Bob Brockmann
Mastered by Chris Gheringer at Sterling Sound, NY NY

Maya Solovey-- Vocals, 7-string guitar, piano, melotron
Bassy Bob Brockmann-- bass, organ, synths
James Richardson-- electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric bass, upright bass, organ, marimba, synths, autoharp
Hank Sullivant-- electric guitar, backing vocals
Robert "Chicken" Burke-- Drums, percussion, synths
Taylor Cannizzarro-- cello

All songs by Maya Solovey, except:
With You, Judy Gumtree, and Running from a Rainy Day, written by Hank Sullivant

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Maya Solovey Brooklyn, New York

Singing in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, Maya Solovéy ropes together an unusual combo of humor, coy sensuality, and an impeccable beauty-- possessed of a voice that is haunting, soothing, and erotic all at the same time.

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