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1. Low on Love (3:11)
Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens
Co-arranged by Nic Hard
Becca Stevens - electric charango, synths, programming, vocals Max ZT - hammered dulcimer
Jason Lindner - synths
Chris Tordini - Moog bass, space bass
Jordan Perlson - drums, roto snare
Keita Ogawa - percussion
Marcelo Woloski - percussion
Nate Werth - percussion
Nic Hard - roto steering, programming, vocal synth
Eric Lense - vocal synth

2. I Wish (2:51)
Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens
Co-arranged by Nic Hard
Becca Stevens - guitar, Hammertone, programming, vocals Cory Wong - guitar
Justin Stanton - synth bass, keys
Michael League - electric bass
Jordan Perlson - drums
Nate Werth - “kitchen sink”
Marcelo Woloski - Caxixi
Keita Ogawa - Angklung

3. Between Me & You (3:20)
Lyrics by Becca Stevens
Music by Becca Stevens & Justin Berger Co-arranged by Nic Hard
Becca Stevens - guitars, programming, vocals Justin Berger - guitars
Michelle Willis - keys
Nic Hard - guitar solo, programming
Chris Tordini - bass
Jordan Perlson - drums
Nate Werth & Keita Ogawa - thunder drum Marcelo Woloski - clay drum

4. Good Stuff (3:37)
Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens & Kaveh Rastegar Co-arranged by Nic Hard
Becca Stevens - bass & keys programming, claps, vocals Michael Mayo - claps, vocals
Bobby Sparks - Melotron, Solina, Clavinet, Rhodes
Jeff Babko - Prophet
Liam Robinson - Wurlitzer
Joshua Lopez - guitar
Kaveh Rastegar - bass
Jordan Perlson - drums
Nic Hard - shaker, claps, keyboard programming
Eric Lense - claps
Lenny Falwell - claps

5. Slow Burn (3:17)

Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens & Talia Billig

Co-arranged by Nic Hard

Becca Stevens - programming, talkbox, vocals

Jacob Collier - percussion, keys & oddities, vocals

Mark Lettieri - guitar

Justin Stanton - synth bass, keys

Jordan Perlson - drums & agogo bells

Nic Hard - programming

Keita Ogawa, Marcelo Woloski, & Nate Werth - percussion, talking, laughing & PORKESTRA!

6. Charlemagne (3:03)
Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens & Alan Hampton Co-arranged by Nic Hard
Becca Stevens - vocals
Alan Hampton - bass, guitar loop, drum programming, vocals Ryan Scott - guitar
Josh Mease - keys, drum programming
Bill Campbell - drums

7. I Will Avenge You (3:46)
Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens
Co-arranged by Nic Hard
* Inspired by the pilot for “In The Dark”, created by Corinne Kingsbury Becca Stevens - guitar, vocals
Ryan Scott - guitar, bass
Nathan Schram - violin, viola
Hamilton Berry - cello
Justin Stanton - synth bass
Jordan Perlson - drums & percussion
Nic Hard - tubular bells, programming

8. You Didn’t Know (4:39) Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens Co-arranged by Nic Hard

• Dedicated to the brave women who came forward to help #MuteRKelly Becca Stevens - moog bass, programming, guitars, vocals
Max ZT - hammered dulcimer
Jason Lindner - synths

Michelle Willis - keys, vocals David Crosby - vocals
Mike ‘Maz’ Maher - vocals Chris Tordini - electric bass Jordan Perlson - drums Keita Ogawa - daf

Michael League - daf Nic Hard - programming

9. True Minds (5:32)

Lyrics by William Shakespeare (Sonnet 116)

Music by Becca Stevens

Co-arranged by Nic Hard

Becca Stevens - drum FX, programming, charango, space guitar, Hammertone, banjo, vocals

Jordan Perlson - drums
Laura Perrudin - drum programming, harp Jason Lindner - synths
Chris Tordini - bass, U-bass
Nathan Schram - viola, violin
Jan Esbra - banjo
Nic Hard - programming

10. Feels Like This (3:11)
Lyrics by Becca Stevens & Talia Billig
Music by Becca Stevens, Talia Billig, & Jacob Bergson Co-arranged by Nic Hard
Becca Stevens - guitar, programming, vocals
Laura Perrudin - harp (effects, percussion & programming) Michelle Willis - Farfisa
Bob Lanzetti - guitar solo
Nic Hard - programming, percussion

11. Never Mine (3:36)
Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens & Kaveh Rastegar Co-arranged by Nic Hard
Becca Stevens - snaps, charangos, vocals
Kaveh Rastegar - snaps, bass
Marcelo Woloski - tongue drum
Larry Goldings - keys

12. Response to Criticism (3:19) Lyrics by Jane Tyson Clement

Music by Becca Stevens
Co-arranged by Nic Hard
Becca Stevens - kora/n’goni, guitar, vocals Roosevelt Collier - lap steel guitar
Michelle Willis - organ
Michael League - bass
Jordan Perlson - drums
Nic Hard - tambourine

13. Halfway (4:30)
Lyrics by Becca Stevens & Talia Billig
Music by Becca Stevens, Talia Billig, & Jacob Bergson Co-arranged by Nic Hard
Becca Stevens - drum programming, charango, vocals
Laura Perrudin - harp (effects, percussion & programming), vocals Michelle Willis - Juno
Liam Robinson - Rhodes, Arp Omni
Bill Stevens - B3 solo
Justin Stanton- Animoog keys
Jordan Perlson - triangle
Chris Tordini - electric, upright, and synth basses
Nic Hard - drum & keyboard programming

14. Heather’s Letters To Her Mother (5:56)

Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens

Co-arranged by Nic Hard

* Dedicated to the memory of Heather Heyer

Becca stevens - programming, guitar, Hammertone, glockenspiel, guitar singing, vocals

Michelle Willis - piano, vocals
David Crosby - vocals
Mike ‘Maz’ Maher - vocals
Chris Tordini - upright bass, space bass Jordan Perlson - drums

Jules Buckley - brass programming & arrangement

Lenny Falwell - French horn

Mother Nature / God / etc. - “wind harp”

Children’s Choir: Ella Hard, Talula Hard, James Corman, Lela Corman, Satie Stevens, Julianne Stevens

Nic Hard - programming, whales, seagulls & Pterodactyl

LOW ON LOVE

Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens

Lately I haven’t been enough Lately I’m runnin’ kinda low on love I wanna be where you are
Held close to the spark
That leads to a song

Lately I’m all wound up
The more that I fight the more I get stuck I wanna be makin’ love
Held close, in the dark
And move to a song

Never been one to give up
But all of my demons are calling my bluff They feed, they taunt, they shame

They say I’m a loser! They say I’m a fake! Quick to the draw on every mistake
Dear Lord, ease the pain
But leave me the song!

They say I’m a loser! They say I’m a fake! Nothing to give & eager to take
Dear Lord, ease the pain
But leave me the song!

I WISH

Music & lyrics by Becca Stevens  

I wish I could shut down like you
I’m fallin’ apart from what you put me through I wish I could shut it all off like you
I’m losin’ it from the fear of losing you, so

Please! Please love me Please! Please love me

I wish I could take off like you
I’m losin’ my head but it means nothing to you I wish I could steady my heart like you
I’m nothin’ without your love to get me through

So, please baby c’mon and love me Please baby, c’mon love me... Please baby c’mon love me, now!

How can I show what’s breakin’ in my heart When every time I try you fall apart?
There’s nothin’ I can do when you get that way So tell me

Please baby, c’mon love me Please baby, c’mon love me

BETWEEN ME & YOU

Music & lyrics by Becca Stevens  

You don’t have to hurry off
It’s ok, you can stay
There’s something in those eyes of yours They’re saying things, and I’m listening We don’t have to sit and talk
Being near you is all I want
I swear I caught you sighing,
Why’re you hiding it?

You know I’m feeling it too
Yeah I’m feeling you, ooh yes I do Rest here in the fantasy
Between me and you

I wouldn’t call it hiding
I’m just quiet when I’m fighting the urge to
Reach out and touch your hand
Will you hold your breath? Will you leave it there? We don’t need to carry on
Just a moment to come undone
Draw in a little of your light
That I long for when you’re gone

You know I’m feeling it too
Yeah I’m feeling you, ooh yes I do Rest here in the fantasy
Between me and you

GOOD STUFF

Music & lyrics by Becca Stevens & Kaveh Rastegar

I wake up
I don’t want to, but I’m drawn by a dream To find meaning
Low on love
And out of money
It’s all the same
I’m in the game.

To ride the long wave Fight the good fight
The one that lights me up Through the dark night And the more I give
When I wanna give up
The greater is the pull from What I’m dreaming of Yeah the good stuff

Not afraid
Born ready
Hands on the wheel
Keepin’ things steady
Gotta save the day
But be a lady
You know, don’t say too much Be too smart
Or get too angry

Workin’ twice as hard For half as much
To get the satisfaction I can almost touch (But) I’m much more Than just enough 'Cause I know

All that I am made of I’m the good stuff

Who are we?
This game is rigged
One player is held down For the other to feel big But we are free
To face anything
Drawn by the dream
That they can never reach

Ride the long wave
Fight the good fight
The one that lights you up Through the dark night
Cause the more you give When you wanna give up
The stronger is the pull
From what you’re dreaming of Yeah the good stuff

SLOW BURN

Music & lyrics by Becca Stevens & Talia Billig

I’m a slow burn
And you’re a quitter
Are you mad I didn’t burn out like you? Now it’s my turn
So you’re bitter
And all you wanna do is blame me Every time you lose

You’re a tyrant
With no one to rule
How’s that working out for you?
On an island
Cause you cut your lifeline / burned every bridge Now you’re wallowing in solitude

I held on to you
Even when I saw through you You always had it out for me Burned down the house we built To proud to face the guilt Looking for revenge
And dyin’ to rile me

Be cruel if you want to (cruel if ya want what)
What are you trying to prove?
Come at me if you’re going to (come on if you’re going to)

I don’t have time for trouble like you

You’re a taker (taker!)
And I gave you so much time (gave you so much) How much is enough for you?

And you’re dyin’ (oooh! gimme some of that) For one more fight
But you can never stick it out
Long enough to win

I held on to you
Even when I saw through you You always had it out for me Burned down the house we built To proud to face the guilt Looking for revenge
And dyin’ to rile me

(Uh oh.) Ah! I held on to you (I held on to you)
Ah! How much is enough (how much is enough for you) Ah! I held on to you (I held on to you)

Be cruel if you want to

(You wanna be cruel? You wanna be cruel?)

What are you trying to prove?

(What are you tryin’ to prove?!)

Come at me if you’re going to

(You wanna come at? Go on and come at!)

I don’t have time for trouble

Be cruel if you want to (cruel if ya want what)
What are you trying to prove?
Come at me if you’re going to (come on if you’re going to) (Have time, trouble)

Be cruel if you want to (cruel if ya want what)
What are you trying to prove?
Come at me if you’re going to (come on if you’re going to) I don’t have time for trouble like you

Don’t stop for trouble (won’t stop for trouble!) Don’t stop for (i ain't gotta stop for no)
Trouble like (no trouble)
Don’t stop for trouble (trouble wont stop for me) I don’t have time for trouble like you

CHARLEMAGNE

Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens & Alan Hampton

“Tyrant analogy in a broken love song”

Charlemagne,
I need to think it over Charlemagne,
How could you call this love?

After all we’ve seen
Somehow we’re right back where we started Cast away the blind crusade
Of new found faith in your lost cause

I don’t need your sympathy
Like you need my love
All the light that’s left between us is fading And will never be enough

Charlemagne,
I need to think it over Charlemagne,
How could you call this love?

Long before our story started our Course was charted out
So tell me how to make this choice When you won’t take no for an answer?

We don’t need our sympathy
Like we need our love,
All the light that’s left between us is fading And will never be enough

I WILL AVENGE YOU

Music & lyrics by Becca Stevens  

Darkness is a hungry dog that follows me Eternally howling, begging for a bone Apathy’s the only remedy
'Cause misery craves company

And I’d rather be alone

You were a light in the alley
But you were a little unlucky
Doin’ the best that you could do And you had the nerve to save me ‘Cause you saw a little good in me

So now I will avenge you...

Humanity is a blind girl in the alley
And the bastard who took everything
Just because he could
Decency is the thug who saved a stranger Even in the face of danger
Chose to do some good

You were the light in the alley
You came for me when I couldn’t see Fighting in the dark

The best way that I knew
And you had the nerve to save me 'Cause you saw a little good in me

So now I will avenge you...

When they took your life
It pulled the fight right out me
Who knew I had it in me
To care about anything at all?
An eye for an eye, fighting tooth and nail Trust nobody

Justice is a thirsty ghost devouring me
Satisfied only by the righting of what went wrong Sympathy does nothin’ for me
Cause it wont get you back to me
But I’m gonna bring you home

You are a light in the alley Unveiling my unraveling
Alone in the dark
Afraid of what I might do...
You had the nerve to save me 'Cause you saw a little good in me

So now I will avenge you

YOU DIDN’T KNOW

Music & lyrics by Becca Stevens

You didn’t know him
You didn’t know, you didn’t
You didn’t know him, you didn’t know

Young girl,
You say you met a man
Swearing you are the only one who understands him He stole your heart
Held it in his hand
Slowly tangled it up in a web of his commands
How could you know? No, you couldn’t know

You didn’t know him
You didn’t know, you didn’t
You didn’t know him, you didn’t know

He was your first, love
Yeah he likes it that way
Keep you promising you’ll never think of another face He took all your dreams and your family
Put ‘em on a leash just out of your reach, sayin’, “You got nothing left to lean on but me.
Who’s your daddy? So where you gonna go?”

You didn’t know him
You didn’t know, you didn’t
You didn’t know him, you didn’t know

Forgetting yourself comes easy
When the only one you see treats you like nothing

You even start believing
That if you escape you’ll waste away
When wasting’s all that happens when you stay

Your hero
Becomes your demon
There’s nowhere to hide
And you’re terrified to leave him
You’re far from the only one
Getting beat up by that trip he’s on
And with each turn around the sun
He’ll steal another star out of the sky
’Til whatever’s in the dark is brought to light

You didn’t know, you didn’t know him You didn’t know, you didn’t know him

We turn a blind eye to evil
For the sake of hanging on to what’s familiar Money wipes clean any slate
Power’s louder than the pain so
We turn a blind eye to evil
For the sake of hanging on to what’s familiar Money wipes clean any slate
Power’s louder than the pain

Of those who beg for justice for their fight As another star is stolen from the night
And another angel falls out of the sky
’Til whatever’s in the dark is brought to light

TRUE MINDS

Music by Becca Stevens
Lyrics by W. Shakespeare (Sonnet 116)

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

Love is not love which alters
When it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove O no! It is an ever-fixed mark.

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come;

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit
Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

FEELS LIKE THIS

Lyrics by Becca & Talia Billig
Music by Becca, Talia Billig, and Jacob Bergson

Such tenderness
In a love like this
Just claiming it
Will cut through you like fire Shattering everything you knew

My heads a mess
But I’m loving it
‘Cause the wear and tear
Will round me out like new Strong, and soft, and open to

You...
Then there’s you

I won’t forget this time,
Just learn this feeling
It’s what we live to find, this is what it feels like I am alive, breaking open
To be human, It feels like this.

Such emptiness
In love like this
Just naming it
Will turn you inside out Making a fool of you

I’ll follow it
To nothingness
’Til the silence
Rounds me out like new Strong and soft and open to

You...
Bring it back to me.

I won’t forget this time,
Just learn this feeling
It’s what we live to find, this is what it feels like I am alive, breaking open
To be human, It feels like this.

NEVER MINE

Lyrics & music by Becca Stevens & Kaveh Rastegar

Only wanna touch you
In the morning light
Revel in that warmth of yours Tangled up with mine

Only wanna feel your heart Pulling like the tide
Filling up the reverie
With the swaying of our sighs

The swaying of our sighs Swaying of our sighs, love Swaying of our sighs Swaying of our sighs, love

I am only human
Alive in my desire
But you are not for me to claim Or love you like you’re mine

What’s harm in dreaming Wanting for a taste? Lighting up the love
One touch at a time

One touch at a time
One touch at a time, love One touch at a time...

Two souls wandering
Trying to find a way
Looking for a signal home before Night gives into day

I think I know the difference Between wrong and right, but Can’t resist, I’m falling for What was never mine
What was never mine What was never mine, love What was never mine...

RESPONSE TO CRITICISM

Music by Becca Stevens Lyrics by Jane Tyson Clement

Do it the way you will
I only know 
That it was right for me To do it so

Leave me scope for some experiment So leave me scope for some experiment

Do it the way you will
I only know 
That it was right for me to do it so 
Take any two right hands and clench them tight,  They will not grasp a rod with equal might
Take any two right hands and clench them tight,  They will not grasp a rod with equal might

So leave me scope for some experiment So leave me scope for some experiment Leave me scope for some experiment Leave me scope for some experiment

In finding out just what the good Lord meant In finding out just what the good Lord meant Finding, finding out
In finding out just what the good Lord meant
When he created in my patient mother  this untried soul that’s me and is no other.

Leave me scope for some experiment For some experiment
So leave me some experiment

In finding out what the good Lord meant Just what the good Lord meant

HALFWAY

Lyrics by Becca Stevens & Talia Billig
Music by Becca Stevens, Talia Billig & Jacob Bergson

Find it in the darkness, find it in the light Find it in the fever that I don’t have the right To be with you here
To be with you here, love

Find it in the freedom, find it in the doubt Find it in the feeling that I can’t do without Being with you here
Being with you here, love

Move a little closer
When you’re pulling away Find another reason
In that open space

Holding on too tightly Does it all slip away? Trying without fighting I’ll meet you halfway

Find it in the chaos, find it in the calm Find it in the fire I need to keep me warm When I’m with you here
When I’m with you here, love

Find it in the distance, find it in the storm Find it in the current that carries me home To be with you here
To be with you here, love

Move a little closer
When you’re pulling away Find another reason
In that open space

Holding on too tightly Does it all slip away? Trying without fighting I’ll meet you halfway

HEATHER’S LETTERS TO HER MOTHER

Music & lyrics by Becca Stevens

Hey Ma,
I got a new job
Keeping me happy
Fighting for the rights of the ones who need it the most It’s what I always wanted to do
Finally living by the words I learned from you
That we’ve got nothing without love
And one another

Hey Ma,
There was a new guy
Keepin’ me happy
But he had a problem being kind
To people who don’t look like him
And when I saw him lookin’ down on my friends
I said “you’ll never love me if you can’t love them, And we’ve got nothing without love”
So I let him go

Hey Ma,
The news is getting me down
We’ve got so far to go
And too little love to go around
People are sayin’ we don’t deserve to be here Well this is not, no, this is not the America I know

So Ma
We’re gonna stand strong tomorrow
So “every child is able to sing with new meaning” Of peace and love and liberty
Their home is ever lost 'til we let freedom ring Cause we’ve got nothing without each other  

Hey Ma,
I wish you could see the streets today
We can cover so much ground
When we hold each other up along the way
Everyone is proud to be here
‘Cause liberty for you and me is the America we know

Mama,
You got a new job from now on
You gotta finish my story
Pick up from where I left off
And no, they can’t quiet us down
And every time they try we’re gonna sing a thousand times as loud
We’ve got nothing without love...
...This is not, no, this is not the America we know

WONDERBLOOM LP RECORDING CREDITS

Produced by Becca Stevens & Nic Hard

Mixed by Nic Hard

Engineered by Becca Stevens & Nic Hard

Additional engineers: Bill Stevens (Ovation Sound), Charley Webb (Full Sail Recording), David Turk

Assistant engineers: Justin Berger, Joey Wunsch, Luke Young, Ravi Bhavsar, Joshua Giunta All songs arranged by Becca Stevens & Nic Hard
Mastered by Dave McNair

RECORDED & MIXED AT :

Rabbit Hole Studios Electrik Indigo Sound Atlantic Sound Studios Ovation Sound Cactus-blockhaus Studio LaLaMansion Studios Pyramid sound

Strange Cranium
Mission Sound Recording FLUX Studios
GSI Studios
666 Productions
Full Sail MIAMI

ALBUM COVER DESIGN CREDITS:

Photography by David Goddard
Album design by Katie Corman & David Goddard Stylist: Kara Kirkland
Hair & Makeup by David Goddard
Titan Arum (background photo) by Jan Lehner

THANK YOU’S

Nanallene
Adam Audio
Alan Hampton
Alicyn Yaffee
Bill Stevens & The Stevens Choir
Core Port
Darlene Van de Grift
Dave McNair
Diko Shoturma
Don Miggs
David Crosby
Earthquaker Devices
Electrik Indigo Sound
El Jefe
Frank Vogt
Glenn Yoder
Ivan Ivanov
Jacob Bergson
Jacob Collier
Jan Lehner
Jesse Fischer
Joey Wunsch
Josephine Taylor
Joshua Giunta
Justin Berger
Kara Kirkland
Katie Corman & the Team Corman Choir

Kaveh Rastegar Luke Young MegaTone Amps Mike League

Nic Hard & the Hard Choir
Oliver Straus @ Mission Sound Recording Ravi Bhavsar
Rob Krauser @ REK Room Media
Shaun Guckian
Soyuz Microphones
Talia Billig
Taylor Guitars

Thank you to my family & Schramily for supporting me, and to all the WONDERBLOOM collaborators for bringing this album to life. Thank you to Nic for sticking by my side in dedication and pure creativity throughout every stage of this process.

I couldn’t do what I do without my amazing teammates. Thank you Momema, Tabitha, Ed, Jan, and all my dear Polyrats for holding me up, and to Eric and Caroline at GroundUP Music for believing in me and my music.

Thank you to my husband, my muse.