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Everybody Wins, Everybody Loses

by Ivy Ross

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EVERYBODY WINS, EVERYBODY LOSES 02:51
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Everybody wins, and everybody loses Can you ever have more than you know how to care for? Everybody fails and comes up with excuses Why it's not your fault It was more than you could afford Everybody wins Everybody loses Everybody wins but it's the same thing that you win you're gonna miss the second that it's gone! Everybody wins, and everybody loses Pick one or the other and the other's on the way Everybody fails, and everybody chooses Whether it's a blessing or the price you had to pay. Everybody wins Everybody loses Everybody wins but it's the same thing that you lose that's gonna prove you're not the only one. Everybody wins when we can work it out together Everybody loses when we wind up in a fight Everybody gets a chance to try to make it better Starting with examining the stories in your mind Everybody wins Everybody loses Everybody wins but it's the same thing that you win you're gonna miss the second that it's gone!
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FEBRUARY NIGHT 03:13
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His wife is the late February night Between the dark and light She sweeps their papers to the fireside and Leaves them for Sunrise His wife is the late February night Whose shoes have come untied The laces wind around like satellites That stumble into flight His wife is the late February night In whom he must confide, "the tears I've cried atop this mountainside Have frozen me in time Are what's kept me alive, Have washed away my pride, Are birds of paradise, Have purified my mind." His wife is the late February night Snow falls from cloudless skies The stars she burns for him will reach his eyes in time For him to See the Light.
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THE SEED AND I 03:13
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How many mornings can the sun refuse to shine? How many nights can clouds obscure the starry skies? Will the winter in a heart allow the Spring to show it's face Pressing up beneath the ground against the muddy weight Did they dig a shallow grave for me so I'd be sure to rise? Or did they dig it deep to make it more than I could climb? Will the echo of the chirping find a place to build a nest Or fly throughout the dusk and never stop to take a rest Will we be the chosen ones the Robin will uproot? Or will she dig around us for some worms to take for food? Her sticky feet will tread upon the ground we've called our home and take all that she needs to feed her young until they're grown.
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SEAVIEW APPROACH 03:29
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saltwater on my boots little prints upon the sand rippling ribcage of the shore sunbeam baptism Seaview Approach I have come back to the ocean all my loved ones who are gone, they know nothing's broken painting light day goes slowly seagulls and rice populate the foam, yeah we are watching for a sign a signal from the great divide all the answers and the wisdom that abide beneath the tide. Marianne waits up for the spotlight holding on to a cloudy midnight she can feel it coming, the finest hour that she has seen Seaview Approach between a vision and a dream.
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EVERYBODY WINS, EVERYBODY LOSES [INSTRUMENTAL] 02:51
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In the early days of coronavirus quarantine Joel & I spent Sundays in the studio as a way of staying connected to the golden thread of music and poetry that has gotten us through so many difficult times with a sense of purpose and trust in change. Since the outside world was off limits, we explored sound in our home studio on the mountainside.

With grace and beauty, Shelley Short and Elizabeth Venable chimed in with some gorgeous supporting vocals from Australia and Portland respectively. Shelley sang on a song I wrote from the perspective of a seed trying to push it's way up from underground. Elizabeth ooooooohhhd on the title track that she and I had brainstormed about months earlier at her kitchen table.

CONNECTION, CREATIVITY, FRIENDLINESS, STRUGGLE, STRENGTH, HONESTY, SINCERITY and LOVE are the ingredients that are getting us through these times.

May we all be so fortunate as to see another day.

May that day be firmly rooted in justice, equality, respect and generosity.

May all beings be free of suffering and the causes of suffering.

Please enjoy the music.

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released September 22, 2020

a *Thanks-a-Lot* production

recorded at The Scavenge Lab
all songs written by Ivy Ross

Drums, Guitar, Piano, Harmonium and Vocals: Ivy Ross Ricci
Bass, Guitar, Trumpet, Vocals and Congas: Joel Ricci

Guest Vocals:
'Everybody Wins, Everybody Loses', by Elizabeth Venable
'The Seed and I' by Shelley Short

Ranchette Records, LIL-5

an Equinox 2020 offering

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Songwriting has been a refuge for me since I was knee high to a grasshopper. I have had the great fortune of collaborating with marvelous musicians around the planet, and I have also spent many a long period of solitude courting the muse in her many forms. May the fruit from the tree I have watered with time be tasty and nourishing for you, and may your creativity bloom luminous, healthy and free. ... more

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