ALL YOURS by ALL YOURS

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There’s a common thread of mind/thought/consciousness/mental health in each song. Here's a short reflection on my headspace during the creation of some of these songs.

- Memory Lane is about cognition and nostalgia. We can understand who we are in a deeper way when we use our senses in the moment, preserve memories, and acquire experience/knowledge. I think that’s an important part of life. Be present. Living in the future fills me with anxiety. Ruminating on the past fills me with shame and regret. All we have is now. Nostalgia has its place. It’s good to remember and be grateful for where you come from. I think we miss too much if our heads are in the “good old days”. Good exists now. Life is happening NOW.
- Ghost Story is about trauma and regret. There are some things we wish would just go away, but they keep showing up. It can be a memory, an idea about ourselves, a person, an event...it haunts us. They’re still scary and still have power over us. We don’t conquer demons and they don’t disappear. We have 2 choices: we can engage them in battle which is often painful or we can accept that they are around us but are NOT US. Haunted or Holy, they’re part of my story.
- Survive in America is about hatred, fear, and jingoism. Our country is in such deep chaos. But in order to find common ground, all sides must seek to understand the differences instead of dismissing or outright rejecting dissenting/opposing views. I’m writing from a place where I want to be known for what I love instead of what I hate. I also need to reflect and do the work of confronting and purging the hate that exists in the dark corners of my heart and mind. The lyric should read “ONE people’s voice is like a storm...” A worthy fight is the fight for unity.
- Walls is about relationships that are frozen as memory. This is an unrequited love song, but it’s not what you think on the surface. I’m not singing to a lover, I’m singing to an estranged family member. We have a very broken relationship and right now, I only exist as a thought or memory. Things can never be the same again, but that doesn’t mean things can’t be good again. I hold onto hope that I can stop being a thought and become real, but I can’t force that to happen. I also can’t allow my wholeness to be conditional on someone else’s choices. Some relationships don’t grow or end, they just sort of freeze. It’s a very powerless feeling. I’m going to continue living even if someone would rather erase me from their existence.

ALL YOURS is the musical passion project of songwriter Jason Ford Turner and Producer Nick Rucker. The creative process of making this album was shaped by pop culture, radio, and music videos from the 1980s.

In sound and scope, this collection of songs is simultaneously introspective and retrospective. ALL YOURS create lyrical and sonic waves traveling from childhood memories to the afterlife.

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