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Movin' On Down
04:22
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Movin’ on down to a brand new town
Gonna’ start a brand new life
Been talking about rollin’ out
Push away all that strife
Leaving the north, heading south
Lots of friends left behind
I touched down, looked around
Too much to process now
In a rut just hanging around
Find a new patch of ground
My new home in a brand new town
Picking up a welcome vibe
I touched down, looked around
Can’t process it all today
This new home in a brand new town
Enjoying it in every way
The old hometown, left in the dust
Place of birth not the same
Got so much I want to do
Before I go away
Movin’ on down to Lynchburg town
Gonna’ start a brand new life
I’ve been talking about rollin’ out
Push away all that strife
I left the north, I headed south
Toom many friends left behind
I touched down, looked around
New people to get to knowwww
Movin’ Movin Movin on down
I’m south of the Mason-Dixon Line
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Love, Love Makes the World Go ‘Round
Love, Love Makes the World Go ‘Round
Not Sure Why They Say Its, Just Look at the Evidence and Weigh It
Love, Probably Don’t Make the World Go ‘Round
I Don’t Think That Love Makes the World Go ‘Round
No, No, I Don’t Think That Love Makes the World Go ‘Round
Come on Brother Be Straight, How Can You Not See All That Hate
Love, Love, Love Don’t Make the World Go Round
Love Is Just a Word that People Say
Yes, Yes, Yes, Love Is Just a Word That People Say
They Love to Cast Their Spell, But With Them It’s Like a Clanging Bell,
Love It Don’t Make the World Go Round
Love Is Misunderstood, try to treat people like you probably should
That Kind of Love Might Just Make the World Go ‘Round
Love Is Misunderstood, try to treat people like you probably should
Oh Yeah, That Kind of Love Might Just Make the World Go ‘Round
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Words are Words and Rhymes are Rhymes
I Like to Write About the Times
Don't Like What I Do or Say
Don't Care About You Anyway
Don't Talk About Borders or Guns
Can't Mention Daughters or Sons
Only Get to Say What's Woke
Your Censorship's a Joke
Fly Your Flags and Place Your Signs
Living in the Worst of Times
Tired of All This Trash
Ukraine's Getting All Our Cast
Pave Our Roads/Fix Our Dams
I'm Tired of All Your Scams
Living in the Worst of Times
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They Don't Care
03:49
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Our Leaders Don't Care
But You Say It's Not Fair
As You Look and Just Stare at Your Phone Because That's All You Got Left
It's Tracking Your Every Move
And Robbing You of Whatever Human Vitality You Got Left in Your Life
And I've Got Some Old Friends Who Probably Think
"Jim, Why Are You So Dark, Why Don't You Have Hope Just Like Us?"
Because Hope is for Fools
Not For People in Places Like East Palistine, Ohio
Where a Train Derailed and Has Created a Massive Toxic Waste Dump
And the Government Says, "It's Safe to go Back in Their Homes"
Even Though the Fish are Dying in Droves and Clogging the Rivers
And the Dogs are Vomiting and the Cats are Barfing, The People are Sick
And the S....woah, woah, woah, Secretary of Transportation
Tells Us We Have Too Many White Contractors
But He Can't Be Bothered to Go to Appalachia
Because They All Voted for Trump there
And Trump Relaxed the Safety Requirements
And These Trains Have Brakes that Date Back to the Civil War
While They're Hauling Their Tank Cars Full of Toxic Waste
But Norfolk Southern Just Had a Stock Buyback in the Billions of Dollars
And They Have the Audacity to Offer the People That They Soiled Their Town
$25,000 Dollars
That's $5 for Every Person That Lives in East Palistine, Ohio
But You Think That They Care
Then They'll Play You For the Fool That You Are
Go Ahead and Be That Fool
They Don't Care, No They Don't Care
They Don't Care, They Don't Care, No They Don't Care
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The Fool
05:00
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Writing Songs
03:53
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Finding Songs Alone in My Room
Making My Way Through a Patchwork of Doom
Winter Time, Bitter Chill
Writing Some Songs, I Think I Will
Lay Down Tracks, Finding Some Beats
Maybe Find Some New People to Meet
I'm Just Here, Singing My Songs
Wish I Could Find Someone to Sing Along
Grabbed a Guitar Six Years Ago
No Other Choice I Was So Low
Started to Make a Few of My Songs
The Words Just Came, Took Me Along
Lay Down Tracks, Finding Some Beats
Hoping I Might Find Some People to Meet
I'm Just Here, Singing My Songs
Been Searching for Voices to Sing Along
Not Sure What I'm Doing Here in the Night
Not Particularly Sure What I'm Doing Is Particularly Right
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Country Song
06:30
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I Called Up the Bar
And Asked for a Gig
The Owner Said, "Do You Play Any Country?"
"Not Really," I said, "But I Play Bob Dylan."
The owner said, "I only want country."
I hung up the phone
Went Down to the Basement
Plugged in my Guitar
And Found a Shuffling Train Beat, Just Fast Enough
And I said, "Now I play fucking country, is that good enough for you Mr. Bar Owner Man."
I Came Home
And I Kicked My Dog
And I Shot My Cat
And I Beat My Wife
I Got in My Truck, Drove Down a Long Dirt Road
Shot a Man in Reno
Just to Watch Him Die
This New Bro-country Makes Me Wanna' Puke and Cry
I Never Beat My Wife
I Never Shot My Cat
I Don't Even Have a Dog to Kick
Is That Country??
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Info War
07:06
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Hey Man, What’s Your Bag
All Your Preachin’ Is a Drag
We Know Better Than You
Gonna’ Tell You What to Do
If You Can’t Follow Our Rules
Have to Send You Back to School
Got Nothing More to Say
Maybe Figure It Out Some Day
Not Woke Enuf 4U
Malcolm Told Us What Wuz True
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Guitar Story
03:39
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Writing All My Lyrics
Playing All My Chords
Try To Make Something From These Words
Some Say It’s About Talent
Feels More Like Work
Playing Guitar ‘til My Fingers Hurt
Stacking Words
Pushing Through the Pain
Lots of Words are Running Through My Brain
Then Those Words Fall Into a Song
Feels Like Magic When I Get to Play Along
I’ve Had People Tell Me
They Could Never Play Guitar
That’s Not True
You Haven’t Gone That Far
Some People Continue
Make It On the Stage
The Truth of That Story’s in “Turn the Page”
(that’s a Seger song)
Landing Gigs Don’t Always Work
You Call and Call, Deal With Jerks
Then Some Nights Are Magic, When You’re on That Stage
The Music Flows and You Get To Rock and Rage (2x)
And Some Nights Are Better Than Seger’s “Turn the Page”
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Ten
02:01
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28 Days Writing My Songs
Probably Nobody Will Sing Along
I Put Words Over Chords
Electric and Acoustic
But I Set My Face Like Flint
That I Could Maybe Do It
And I Did
And I Need One More Song
To Make It Ten
I Have 35 Minutes and 9 Songs
Might as well add one more song (why not)
Make It Ten
RPM Here in 2023
RPM Here in 2023
February
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JimBaumerME Lynchburg, Virginia
Lo-fi indie anachronism: T. Rex mashed into Lou Reed, opening for Car Seat Headrest (at Alice's Restaurant).
For fans of Swearing at Motorists, Guided By Voices, Sparklehorse, Von Hayes, etc.
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