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Back to the Bad Old Days

from Graveyards Wind & War by Bart Moore

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Not again...please, no

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THE BAD OLD DAYS

I’m calm & collected
My mind is clean
I see windmills & photovoltaic
cells on the village green
The Clown’s been supplanted
I pray that it’s true
I’m so happy/I’m ecstatic
I want to share this feeling with you

But the Queen is resplendent
When she looks down at me
From her five-bedroom house
In the land of a thousand seas
She’s strong, and she is laughing
At the glassware she has smashed
AND in my nightmare time, I flash

Back to the bad olde days
Back to the bad olde days

My friends are all gathered
They’re all drinking to life
A toast to Tommy & Kenny
A toast to my wife
But the Clown is ascendant
He feeds on idiot fright
The planet bakes in the sun
The country dies in the night

But the Queen has got this
She’s intelligent and she’s good
She’s got a figure of Roosevelt
That she carved out of wood
And she’s covered in glory
She covered with snow
We’ll follow her forward
But we never want to go

Back to the bad olde days
Back to the bad olde days
I remember how it was

Everybody remembers
Where they were when the whole thing crashed
And in my nightmare time, I flash
Back to hard times
Back to the bad olde days
I remember how it was

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from Graveyards Wind & War, released May 25, 2022
Bart Moore - 12-string guitar & vocal
Tamiko Rothhorn - vocals
Skip vonKuske - cello

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Bart Moore Grand Ledge, Michigan

Bart Moore weds native influences of the Pogues, Tom Waits &Basement Tapes-era Dylan to a headfull of images singularly his own.

"No one writes like Moore: setting scenes using peculiar lyrical details, tying slipknots in the human timeline; history intertwines with the present, bringing death to life. All that comes into play on Graveyards, Wind, & War." ___ Kevin Curtin, Austin Chronicle ... more

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