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Traces

by Stephanie Hatfield

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1.
Leigh's Song 04:10
Don’t lead me in or you’ll see me cry Can’t be the kind to turn a blind eye When I saw them lying on the frozen ground Scraps of fabric and scarves they had found I can’t pretend. No, I can’t forget Turn around the bend Can’t shield my eyes, can’t tell the same old lies No one will die A frail towhead girl with no front teeth No heat tonight, can I take her with me She runs away when I turn around Now I’m the one lost in her town I can’t pretend. No, I can’t forget Turn around the bend Can’t shield my eyes, can’t tell the same old lies No one will die The more I see the more I have to close my eyes I know I’ll find her one child at a time Hold her tight as she wails and screams Let her beat her broken heart out on me I can’t pretend. No, I can’t forget Turn around the bend Can’t shield my eyes, can’t tell the same old lies No one will die I can’t pretend. No, I can’t forget Turn around the bend Can’t shield my eyes, can’t tell the same old lies No one will die
2.
It’s ok to let me see you fail I know the price of fear It’s ok to let me hear you wail When all your faults seem too near Stay, stay lover strong So wild, wild in my arms Won’t you fall, fall into me Just like a song, we’ll always be I could not love you anymore Then when I finally see you crumble For richer or for poor You’re the man who made me stumble I stumble Stay, stay lover strong So wild, wild in my arms Won’t you fall, fall into me Just like a song, we’ll always be So on a Sunday evening When I reach for you Will you wanna feel me trembling And make a love that’s new I do I can’t stand another cloudless day What I’d give for a little rain Then we’d see it’s not what we say That will wash away our pain
3.
Sugar in my coffee, such a rare delicious treat Crow is on the fence calling for someone to meet An empty page demands a verse from which to feed Here I sit, I’ve never been so out of touch with me I can ride the high tide of my pain I can weather the most blinding of rains But I can never seem to find Peace with what I’ve left behind Spring has come too early, all the apricots in bloom Seems hard to enjoy a season come too soon A few more lines I’ll try to bleed from this open wound So little life, so little time to try to prove I can ride the high tide of my pain I can weather the most blinding of rains But I can never seem to find Peace with what I’ve left behind Behind, it seems You’re my illusion Living a dream Only leaves confusion Sometimes it seems like this was all just a joke Where would I be, where else would I go Having a choice is just a trap to want a little more I’ll never have, I’ll never know what I could never hold I can ride the high tide of my pain I can weather the most blinding of rains But I can never seem to find Peace with what I’ve left behind
4.
Lost from Me 04:48
She eats you up in a voice that kills But you don’t think you think about her still The dreams you want are the ones that scare But these are small things in the face of a dare He said how long I’ve waited for this moment with you again To tell you under this cool moon in this hard, hard wind It was never the same, when you weren’t there I had Nothing tangible left, I could go nowhere It was never the same, couldn’t breathe couldn’t bear Being the one you had left, I could go nowhere Where you weren’t lost from You weren’t lost from me Wasn’t it true that she knew all you said Was meant for someone else in someone else’s bed When do the years catch up with what we still can touch You lost another bright one feeling less too much He said how long I’ve waited for this moment with you again To tell you under this cool moon in this hard, hard wind It was never the same, when you weren’t there I had Nothing tangible left, I could go nowhere It was never the same, couldn’t breathe couldn’t bear Being the one you had left, I could go nowhere It was never the same, when you weren’t there I had Nothing tangible left, I could go nowhere It was never the same, couldn’t breathe couldn’t bear Being the one you had left, I could go nowhere Where you weren’t lost from You weren’t lost from me
5.
I had this dream about dying, my body couldn’t move suddenly I found I couldn’t dart across the yard, taking on a million things, readying for friends The project that I began fell loose from my hand, incomplete to the ground The song that was playing on the radio, I’d never know exactly how it ends A thousand moments spent with ease Our strength fell with the leaves I never saw us grow that old But that’s the story you always told I had a dream You finally came back here for me Hang your mourning head Talking to the dead instead of me Years that were made of moments of star-crossed love we desperately tried to stop time Fingers laced in the sand rocks glowing in our hands as the rain found its way down Anything to capture our new found rapture was never to be mine Take a photo, write a song, you know it won’t be long ‘fore all of this will be gone A thousand moments spent with ease Our strength fell with the leaves I never saw us grow that old But that’s the story you always told I had a dream You finally came back here for me Hang your mourning head Talking to the dead instead of me I had a dream You finally came back here for me Hang your mourning head Talking to the dead instead of me Talking to the dead instead of me
6.
I know everyone says I’m a strong one But I don’t feel very strong today Can’t shake off the ache that’s coming on today When I realize how far I am away I can taste the air holding on to the day Wasting not a care while the maples they sway While the maples they sway In my dresser drawer is found an acorn Found at the grave of Apa Lona My name, a badge worn, distance never torn Great-grandma, wish I would have known I can taste the air holding on to the day Wasting not a care while the maples they sway While the maples they sway Can you tell me why I decided to live So far away So far from my side, never far from my mind Hating all the time between A cold day in ‘96, my car was on the hitch Ready to drive myself far away Now that I stayed, seems like everyday Is made up of ways to feel less far away
7.
Can’t hear a thing over the wind But I still walk past that broken fence to let you in Trailing my hand over what time just couldn’t mend Where was I when everything came to an end? When I come back home Why do you follow me down this broken road? Throw your head back and look to the star rich sky I wrap my limbs around you, like our last goodbye Can’t tell when the animals came last When they tore through all we left when leaving so fast Pieces strewn to the corners now just remnants of our past How could we leave everything for which we had asked? When I come back home Why do you follow me down this broken road? Throw your head back and look to the star rich sky I wrap my limbs around you, like our last goodbye Guess the trees were stronger than the rest Pulled down all but the chimney under which we slept the best Precious nights spent with blankets pulled up around our chest We believed that nothing could destroy our perfectness When I come back home Why do you follow me down this broken road? Throw your head back and look to the star rich sky I wrap my limbs around you, like our last goodbye The voice I heard that night Sounded exactly like mine Hung in the air like a death Carried down the road that led, straight to our home When I come back home Why do you follow me down this broken road?
8.
I know it wasn’t long ago when I asked for what I’ve got I know it wasn’t long ago I remembered what I’m not So why do I expect to feel thunder only when I sleep What is it to me? Times that I have looked back on have worn away on all I dreamed But never did the pain expel the hope that they would soon be reached So why do I see passion as nothing but a history What is it to me? I’ve sold myself to every line I’ve stolen love that was not mine So where does that leave me now Digging through memories like I, I could relive them somehow You were just a luckless love when the sun was moving slow We awoke from faded dreams smelling in the air of snow I could feel our time had changed, reluctantly I left all the same What is it to me? I’ve sold myself to every line I’ve stolen love that was not mine So where does that leave me now Digging through memories like I, I could relive them somehow Digging though memories like I, I could relive them some
9.
Confession 05:35
Standing in the kitchen, friends and family running round He stares at me intently, says “I can’t stand what I’ve found” This is not just a sincere exchange over the counter, over wine What he says throws all the covers off what I’ve been doing all this time All this time All this time All this time Had I known, should I know, what do I say, what will I do Cause what he says somehow is more real than any part of me and you I see through him like a winter’s lake, revealing all its bottom lying stones And if I do I may dive into a watery grave I once foretold All this time All this time All this time So I walk, I run, I hide in a bathroom down the hall Sink to my knees and hold my head as if somehow I can stop the fall He was gone and so I carried on, but I left most of me behind With this confession I can see it now, my life if I could just rewind All this time All this time All this time
10.
Exposed 04:30
Running under a threatening sky, waiting for a rain I recall how it seems that I made a fool of myself again Maybe I expose it all to burn up in flames Cause everything that came before has always done the same If you can hear my voice under yours I’ll have nothing left to force If you can wrap your arms, wrap your arms around me now If you can wrap your arms, wrap your arms around me now This conversation cuts like a knife through already heavy air I beg myself ‘don’t walk out the door’ cause surely I still care As I sit on our living room floor, I’m frozen in my gaze Could I admit my unhappiness in wave after wave If you can hear my voice under yours I’ll have nothing left to force If you can wrap your arms, wrap your arms around me now If you can wrap your arms, wrap your arms around me now For the smallest time I allowed myself not to be this version of me Widen my eyes to see beyond when the wind would whirl and scream The storm that I had baited on was full of my own fears Now I watch them fall, letting the rain drum distance in my ears If you can hear my voice under yours I’ll have nothing left to force If you can wrap your arms, wrap your arms around me now If you can wrap your arms, wrap your arms around me now If you can wrap your arms, wrap your arms around me now If you can wrap your arms, wrap your arms around me now

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Hatfield's 3rd album reveals a vast space of abandonment and rue. And yet it is undeniably beautiful, not in spite of but because of its evolution—and the traces of stories trembling in the air, ready to be spoken to those who dream, imagine, and listen.

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released January 10, 2017

Stephanie Hatfield - Vox, Guitars, Piano & Percussion
Bill Palmer - Guitars & Percussion
R. Bruce Phillips - Keys & Piano
Noah Baumeister - Bass
Arne Bey - Drums
Eric Ortiz - Trumpet
Santiago Romero - Guitar & Vihuela

All songs written by Stephanie Hatfield
Produced by Stephanie Hatfield & Bill Palmer
Recorded & Engineered by Bill Palmer at Frogville
Mastered by Brian Lucey of Magic Garden Mastering

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Stephanie Hatfield Santa Fe, New Mexico

Although originally from the Detroit area, this eclectic singer hails from a Kentucky hillbilly heritage with a rich poetic history. Her music embodies the emotional release of having your heart ripped apart and lovingly put back together again, but it’s the raw power of Hatfield’s expansive voice that makes her the perfect soundtrack for an adrenaline junkie who craves the rush. ... more

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