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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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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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