Get all 13 Ivy Ross releases available on Bandcamp.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Season to Survive, Everybody Wins, Everybody Loses, The Thanks A Lot Honky Tonk Concern, It's Hard to Know, An Hammock, PeaceLove Sessions, The Song Walk, Face, and 5 more.
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Music Box, Eternally
00:49
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Every now and again, I rediscover something beautiful that I received from my dear grandmother Pauline. This little golden music box lives on a keychain of all places. It's connected to what holds the key.
May this little snippet, recorded to wire at Adam Selzer's Portland studio in September, encourage you to unwind, to slow down, to prepare for relaxation. A relaxed mind is a powerful mind. A relaxed heart can receive.
(For the longest time, I did not know what the tune was! On December 26th, 2022, boxing day, aka Feast of Stephen, my dear Dad let me know that it is a song called "Eternally".
It was composed by the one and only Charles (Charlie) Chaplin for his 1952 film, Limelight. Chaplin titled the tune "Terry's Theme". Eventually, words were written by the English lyricists Geoff Parsons and John Turner with a theme of Eternal Love.
Chaplin's film won an Oscar for "Best Original Dramatic Score" at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973.)
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Never Alone
01:24
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When you feel alone, you are never alone, and when ET phoned home, do you remember what happened? 'Cause I don't!
When you feel afraid, remember what you're made of! The same stuff as your favorite supershero or planet, and you'll float, you'll fly, you'll float right past the fear my dear.
So when you're insecure, remember there's the door. But if you stick around, you may find courage when you dig deep down, around, there is no courage without fear my dear.
Ivy Ross on guitar, vocals and tingsha bells
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Season to Survive
03:12
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Here's to the moon and stars who will remind us who we are, if we will allow them to.
Here's to those who I admire who show me how to stay on fire, I am looking up at you.
You're the ones who know how to say no, who paved the way for us to go, marching through the clearest skies.
And the cloudy ones won't be undone, that rain will shower everyone, this will come as no surprise.
Sun and Moon know what to do, and they will demonstrate for you how to keep this world alive.
Passing through and passing by, they show us how to share the sky. 'Tis the season to survive.
Ivy Ross on electric guitar, drums, bass, handbells, vocals
field recording from the Silver Lining Cafe on S'Klallam waterfront including Coho Ferry departing horn.
May each bell be a reminder of your innate beauty and intelligence!
May the Coho Ferry horn send you off in the direction of your most healing dream visions!
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The Velocity
03:06
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Rain's falling, like a memory it's calling, melancholily bawling, something's calling your name.
You're sleeping, in your dreams you've been leaping, superficially scorekeeping, and you're losing the game.
The way you've been a'thinking forgets whose hand is feeding you, bound to astound you that one who gazes lovingly towards you won't give up on you.
You're falling, the velocity's enthralling, cataclysmically snowballing, now you've heeded the call.
A feather, we will always be together, time and distance can't sever what came before the fall
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Before there's a version there's a bend, there's a bend
Imagination reaches out their arms like an old friend
The world a possibility that lives inside your head
Before there's a version there's a bend
Before there's an echo there's a sound, there's a sound
Someone yells into a canyon as they wander down
They hear a clear response, but there is no one to be found
Before there's an echo there's a sound
Before there's a feeling there's a thought, there's a thought
Stuck inside a story it's so easy to get caught
The life that passes by you when your tummy's in a knot
Before there's a feeling there's a thought
One sure thing to do is just breathe in and then breathe out
Recognize the feeling of your tongue inside your mouth
And give great thanks to gravity that holds us to the ground
Sometimes, just breathe in and then breathe out.
So you see everything it has a start, has a start
Not knowing what's coming next is sort of the best part
It turns out that freedom's a condition of the heart
You see everything it has a start
YOU ARE BUILDING
You are building
See through
Tunnel
of trees
The Golden Maple
at the end
all smothered
in pure honey
from the sky
That is where you
are headed
through this
diamond
vision
tunnel
Dark woods
to either side.
Ivy Ross on keys, hand bells, guitar, drums, whistle
Dawn chorus on the Hogback also featured at the top
You Are Building recorded to Webster “Electronic Memory” wire recorder by Adam Selzer
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Museum Hill
03:17
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When I am walking to the corner store,
I'm going to hold my head up high.
My grandpa said, "No matter what you do, don't let anybody steal your mind."
And when I walk up to Museum Hill,
I'm gonna put on my new shoes.
The very same ones that my mother got,
so she'll be walking with me too.
And when I'm lying in my bed at night,
praying for justice and for peace,
I'll call on everyone I've lost and loved,
and they will dream alongside me,
and they will work from within me,
and we will work until we are all free.
Ivy Ross on harmonium, guitar, vocals, ukulele
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7. |
Oh Elijah
02:59
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Oh, Elijah, what are you waiting for?
Why surprise us?
We know where you came from.
You look haunted by the things you know to be
standing in between you and me.
Oh, Elijah.
Hey, Elijah, you know it's not your fault.
Skin too binding
Nothing like a dream to wake you up.
You went flying through the woods between the owls
Caught by the branches and they took you down
Hey, Elijah.
Oh Elijah, you became the wind that blew
All the diamond dust inside of you.
You went climbing in the clouds just when the lightning broke
All the windows in your storybook.
Ivy Ross on guitar, harmonium, violin, drum
Featuring Anna Verlet on violin
Field recording of graceful red-winged blackbird at the mouth of the Elwha River at tail end of song
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Larger Identity
06:14
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Well you're stuck in the mud again with your woes and despairs.
This globe can be galling for your heart if you've got one that cares.
If you're caught in familiar tall tales and a river of fears,
if it feels like you're wading around in that ocean of tears...
Go on and connect with your larger identity.
You'll be free.
Because when you connect to your Larger Identity,
you are free.
Your skin feels too tight and you're worried you might lose it all.
Can't figure out how to pass this unfeasible wall.
The thought of your plans fills you up to your limit with dread.
There's a critic with two thumbs pointing down in your head.
Well, go on and connect with your larger identity.
You'll be free.
Because when you connect to your Larger Identity,
you are free
Now sit yourself down and prepare for a new can of worms.
Try seeing it from their perspective if you want to learn.
You're sipping that last straw, and savoring every last drop
Forgiveness won't kill you, but it will bring you to a full stop.
Oh when we forget about our larger identity
You're just you and I am just me.
But when we connect to our Larger Identity
We are free.
We are free.
Ivy on guitar, tambourine, and vocals
Little Delta Dawn shared some of her healing purr vibrations with us at the end there.
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9. |
Forget Me
03:15
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You can come and go now,
you can come and go now
and forget me,
forget me.
You can come and go now,
you can come and go now
and forget me,
forget me.
Well I suppose if you know you'll get by on your own
you'll forget me,
forget me.
Oh try as you might to fight how you feel,
the enemy inside won't disappear
and will reveal
That you can come and go now,
you can come and go now
and forget me,
forget me.
You can come and go now,
you can come and go now
and forget me,
forget me.
Well for a start make some art with a bit of your heart
and you'll forget me,
forget me.
Oh try as you may to give away some of your pain,
your gift is your hardship and it is pouring like the rain.
You can come and go now,
you can come and go now
and forget me,
forget me.
You can come and go now,
you can come and go now
and forget me,
forget me.
Ivy on guitar and vocals
Joel Ricci on trumpet and bass
Drum machine played itself in that mystical way that it does
Babbling brook of Dunsmuir carries us into the next number
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10. |
There is No Mistake
02:30
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l will take my time,
There is no mistake.
I will take my time to walk away.
I will take my time to watch the Moon
Oooooooooooh
Every child on this ball is a child of us all,
and we all were children once,
so I will take my time to learn with you.
Oooooooooooh
For every star in the sky there's a star inside.
For every friend in front of me,
there are more that I can't see.
So I will take my time to walk you home.
Oooooooooooom
I will take my time there is no escape.
I will take my time to turn the page.
I will stop the blame and meet the need.
Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed
Ivy on vocals and guitar
Recorded by Adam Selzer
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11. |
Heart of Imagination
03:54
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A CREDIBLE GARDEN
When you are weary
of the creamy
peanut butter hairdos
that have kept you
stuck to the roof
of society’s you’re-on-your-own mouth,
I will hold the bass line down
to remind you what a grounded sound wave is capable of
and surround
your force field
torn shield space suit
with reminders of what you flew
down here to do.
And when the inner children
on the capitol steps kick and pound
at the interior walls bound
to confound us with their choices made
without the consent
of their constituents,
we will uproot the legislation they have passed so fast
and plant a credible garden that will last far past the last gasp
of a failed democracy experiment,
and a new world will rise up,
one bursting with a thirst for justice, hers, his, theirs, yours, mine and just then
The timeless clock of the dedicated dawn will send a letter to your mailbox to see
if you would like to order a subscription
for the new day.
Ivy on drums, guitar, bass and vocal
A Credible Garden recorded to Webster “Electronic Memory” wire recorder by Adam Selzer
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12. |
Here We Are
02:58
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Here we are,
we've come so far,
so long to go.
Will we survive,
come out alive?
It's hard to know.
The same life swims through all there is,
through mountains, humans, and the fishes.
When we see there is no other, we will treat each being as our mother.
When mountains quake,
when your heart aches,
there is a cause.
There is a place,
without a name,
with different laws.
A realm of dignity and peace,
where hearts are safe to be at ease.
There is a home that we may know,
as above, so below.
Here we are,
we've come so far,
so long to go.
Ivy on guitar and vocals
Recorded to Webster “Electronic Memory” wire recorder by Adam Selzer
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Here we are,
we've come so far,
so long to go.
Will we survive,
come out alive?
It's hard to know.
The same life swims through all there is,
through mountains, humans, and the fishes.
When we see there is no other, we will treat each being as our mother.
When mountains quake,
when your heart aches,
there is a cause.
There is a place,
without a name,
with different laws.
A realm of dignity and peace,
where hearts are safe to be at ease.
There is a home that we may know,
as above, so below.
Here we are,
we've come so far,
so long to go.
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Ivy Ross
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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