Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Becca Stevens - "Maple to Paper"
From the album 'Maple to Paper' - Out Now
Buy/stream here: orcd.co/mapletopaper

A Poca Broma production

Director - Jep Jorba
Director of Photography - David Bretones
Production Assistant - Marta Garrett
Art Director - Renata Carrillo
Hair & Makeup - Laura Zamacois
Costume Design - Aloma Lafontana

Becca Stevens – guitar, vocals

Performed live by Becca Stevens
Recorded and produced from home by Becca Stevens
Mixing and additional production by Nic Hard assisted by Ananya Sharma
Mastered by Dave McNair
Recorded on two Lauten Audio LS-208 microphones and a Taylor 812ce guitar
Album cover design by Desi Moore
Album cover photo by Shervin Lainez

Music and lyrics by Becca Stevens (Becca Stevens Publishing – SESAC, under exclusive worldwide license to GroundUP Music Publishing)

LYRICS
Maple moored by moonlit midnight
Make me move more mindfully
Down the detour, dodging darkness
Damning doom, decidedly

I see eyes in layered branches
High in my periphery
Shifting as the crosswinds hurry
Always catching up with me

Could a masterpiece like this
Be cut down to make magazines?
Stripped and chipped, washed and bleached
And pumped onto a moving screen?

Does the maple know the paper
Far beyond its former form?
More-so made by “non-tree” things
Who am I to say the tree is gone?

Does a tear long for the ocean,
Or relish in sweet separateness?
Do we trust in what’s left over
When making sense of impermanence?
Is presence only present tense
Or does a memory really bring me back to you?

Did the parts of you that faded
Carry through another way?
Where does light go when it leaves us?
Is that you here in her face?

I will guide her way with patience
But where’s the tree that carried me?
Gone in touch, trapped in stillness
Here in thought infinitely.

Sickness was my little sister
When she too grew patiently
Cradled in your warm embrace
And cut out quickly, just like me

Was that still you there in your eyes?
Did I see a little smile
As you lay paper thin
And grey and gave your little light away?

Does the cinder know the ember
Far beyond its former form?
More-so made by “non-flame” things
Who am I to say the ember’s gone?

Does a tear long for the ocean,
Or relish in sweet separateness?
Should we trust in what’s left over
When making sense of impermanence?
Is presence only present tense
Or does a memory really bring me back to you?

Follow Becca Stevens
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Facebook: facebook.com/BeccaStevensBand
Twitter: twitter.com/beccastevensbsb
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Website: beccastevens.com

Follow GroundUP Music
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Twitter: twitter.com/groundupmusicny
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Website: groundupmusic.net

Thank you to: Eric Lense for encouraging and supporting the process of letting these songs out & GroundUP Music for your dedication to providing a platform for authentic art. My family for loving me through the weirdest three years ever. Maradle, Kelly, Laura & Katie for mom-life support. My garden plot. Kleenex. Neighbors whom I’ve never met but only banged on the wall once. Croz for all the seeds you planted & continue to sow in my songwriting from afar. Nic Hard for being a steady & level-headed sounding board. Camille Watson. Talia Billig. Shervin Lainez. Desi Moore. Joanne Farrugia. Liz Memel. Beth & Elsie Meyers Treuting.The dream video team: Jep Jorba, David Bretones, Marta Garrett, Renata Carrillo, Laura Zamacois, Aloma Lafontana. My husband for holding me up. My babies & my Mama, my muses: I love you.

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