Name: Keep the old swizzer up, Joe!
Duration: P00H03M39S
Description: This song is predominantly a tribute to Tim Barry. It's about those who strayed and were stronger for it. But, also about the sadness that being alone can bring. The desolation so often found in Kerouac's writing, but also, the desire for more. Crazy lustful travel songs, baby.

Keep the old swizzer up, Joe!

from Baritone Cats by LAWNMOWER MAN

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This song is predominantly a tribute to Tim Barry. It's about those who strayed and were stronger for it. But, also about the sadness that being alone can bring. The desolation so often found in Kerouac's writing, but also, the desire for more. Crazy lustful travel songs, baby.

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Sing to me about railroads, about throwing empty bottles at the stars. Highways and last calls and lonely losers who'll never get to far. I'm back on the move again. I love the feeling of the wind in my hair. Sing to me about failure, redemption and regret. Running away and mountaintops and blowing off your debts. There's a billion things you could try to be in the world tonight, we're all lost without a map. The moon tonight is huge in the sky and I don't know just when I'll be back. I'm back on a bus today, I can't remember where it is I'm even headed. The future is just like the past, it's just trying to find meaning in a mess. Everything looks beautiful when it's seen from a rear-view mirror. Sing to me about lost love, nights of heartsick and loneliness, abandoned cities, border crossings and how to let go of yourself. Another turning of the wheel and who knows, things may yet be better than ever they once were.

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from Baritone Cats, released January 15, 2014
Jayme Hagen - guitar, vocals

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