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All or Nothing

by Joy Ike

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1.
Everything You Have (free) 03:39
I've turned these words over and over and over again I've asked myself are you ready to hear this again I see you pushin' and pullin' and twistin' and turning'; tryin' to fit in It's like no matter how old we get, we're always tryin' to fit in. All these things you clutter and collect, they look good But they consume your mind, take all your time. That's no good You break one thing, replace two things. It never ends But the things that shine, they will surely blind you in the end I don't want to make the world my god Give up everything for nothing I don't care who you think you are Everything you have will fall apart All these things They have their string all over you They cannot move but they have you glued I'd rather trust a God I cannot see than the things that try to change my personality I'd rather trust a God I cannot see than the things that try to change my personality I'd rather trust and know that I am free than in the things that break and try to take ahold of me I'd rather know that my security is not in what I can do for you or what you can do for me Or what I can give to you, or what you can give to me Or if your hope is only in the things you can taste and see Or what I can say to you, or what you can say to me Or how people talk and say that my vision is blurry So many things they take my time, but they’re not worth a dime But they take my money, dignity, all of me
2.
No matter what you say I’m gonna love you anyway You know you just come and go People are starting to think that I’m shallow But you need someone to love you like I do I watch you, I wait for you, I sit here day after day for you I watch you and I wait for you, I sit here and I pray That you have someone to love you like I do
3.
Go 03:10
Lift your head high. And don’t let it low Let out a sigh. Then get up and go Go out and get it. Hey hey! Get it, do it, love it, live it Walk it, talk it, work it, rock it Go out and get it. Hey hey!
4.
Happy 02:24
Finally have some time to sit around and settle down And think about my life I must admit I don’t know what comes next, what to expect But want to get it right I just wanna to be happy, happy with me 35 some years ago you left your world To make a new home in this new place Dad and mom you sure are brave To let it all go and pave your own way So I hope you’re happy, happy with me When I’m gone and my life is done And I’ve spent my love and sung my last song I wanna be eulogied like… “She was sweet and she was strong And she never marched to anybody else’s drum” And I hope that they will say that “She walked like Jesus, and she talked like Jesus, And she lived like Jesus, and she loved like Jesus” And I made him happy, happy I made him happy, I made him happy I made him happy, happy with me
5.
Time 04:50
I can’t remember how it feels to live a day all by myself And never really worry about someone else But I do remember when I found I could stick by you all the time And never really worry that I was wasting my time You thought it over and you said, “I like you and I love you And I want to spend more time with you.” It takes no thinking at this point, just effort, hard work, and honesty Cause I want to spend my life with you. Wherever you go, I will follow you This is our life and how it starts As we travel worlds and we make art We'll never really worry about wasting our time About wasting our time…
6.
My father says I cannot marry you Says he forbids me Says he will ship me back to his land My mother says shame on you For trying to use me Don’t you know she worries that I’ll forget her land My brother and my sister they’re with me They say it don’t matter As long as I remember my identity So if you promise you’ll never let me forget my land I will promise I’ll never let you forget your land If what you said the other day is true then please forgive me We don’t need to worry that we’ll forget our land We will hop a train, we will fly a plane, we will walk all day Through every country We don’t need to worry, worry, worry if this world is our land Oh no no no
7.
You were walking down my side of the street Humming to yourself and kicking the leaves and singing, “Girl, come out and walk with me!” And I put my sweater and I ran out the door And I came up with this song soon as I hit the floor and you sang, “Girl, come out and walk with me!” And we sang, “Fall wash over me I hear our feet, feet and it makes me free Fall wash over me I hear our beat, beat on the ground and it makes me sing.” You said, “jump into this puddle and ruin your jeans Or come on we can huddle as we stomp on these leaves. Doesn’t really matter as long as you walk with me!”
8.
Pick Me Up 03:47
Feel like a Mac truck done run me down Didn’t wait or warn, it just ran me down You know I looked both ways to clear my path Lookin’ side to side to see just where I’m at Feel like there’s something holdin’ me down Try to swim through water, it tryin’ to make me drown You know I looked back to see the shore before I jumped in So I don’t know why I’m fighting just to find it Pick me up and I’ll be the one to do the same for you Work it out. C’mon and work it out instead of runnin’ like you do If I can trust you to hold me high Above the water and the road, above the chaos that we know I know you would trust me too Cause if you pick me up I’ll do the same for you You run, I hide. You always leave my side I don’t wanna be that way with you I push, you pull. Dig and drop me in a hole I don’t wanna love that way with you
9.
Thought if I wanted, thought if I wanted to leave Kept these words in my mouth, stood up and walked out No one would see Slipped through the door’s crack, never to come back You followed me Just like a shadow, subtle but faithful Something so sweet And you said, “Don’t ever die. You don’t fit in, but neither do I. Don’t you pretend that nobody cares. This is me here. You don’t fit in but neither do I. That brings me joy and life. Joy and life”
10.
Home 06:12
Takes me a long time to say what I feel It’s like everything I say rubs the wrong way, and what I don’t say pushes you away I can’t win And I’ve wrestled with you You always win It’s like everything you say puts me in my place Take my hand just to keep me at arms length You are my home, You are my home Like the sun in the moon and the bride for the groom You are my home So I will be waiting ‘til your heart is there ‘Cause the only thing worse than keeping it in is letting it out If you don’t care I know words lose their meaning. Feelings lose feeling But I’m tired so I said it; so you can do what you want with it Words lose their meaning. Feelings lose feeling But I’m tired so I said it; so you can take what you want from it Words lose their meaning. Feelings lose feeling But I’m tired so I said it; so you can do what you want with it You can give it away, give it back to me Or throw it away into the sea You can do what you want with it. You can do what you want You are my home, You are my home Like the sun in the moon and the bride for the groom You are my home

credits

released January 22, 2013

All songs written, performed, and arranged by Joy Ike
Produced, arranged, and recorded by Saul Simon MacWilliams
Mixed by Saul Simon MacWilliams and Dan Romer
Additional Engineering by Billy Libby
Mastered by Roman Vail
Album Artwork by Joy Ike

Joy Ike: vocals, piano, ukulele, wurlitzer, percussion, string Arrangments, claps, stomps, sounds created with her mouth

Saul Simon MacWilliams: acoustic guitar, keys, programming, Percussion, vocals, marimba, trumpet, string arrangments

Jason Rafalak: upright bass, electric bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

Ryan Socrates: drums, hand percussion, auxiliary percussion

Eleanor Graham: cello (track 3, 6, 10)
Adam Christgau: drums, arrangement (track 1)
Kallie Ciechomski: viola (track 1)

String Quartet: Chamber Light Players provided by Symbiotic Collusion - Ashley Buckley, Hannah Whitehead, Jason Hohn, and Jason Neukom

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