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One Night Vacation
03:03
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Love
I know that you get tired of the news
And the job that you don’t really wanna do
Come on in and get where it’s alright though
Think I might know what you’d like most
Come on in let's get it started hey
Boulevardiers
Know you're starvin' hey
Yeah yeah yeah
Know ya hardly ate
Work was hard to take
Tell me all your day
Yeah yeah yeah
Spin around let’s unwind
One time
Then float and sway
Here now
It’s sunshine
Here’s your lime
Gotta toast to make
To you
So listen
You moved so efficient
Your dues paid with interest
It’s true
You grinded now it’s tonight
Here’s to livin some life
I give no tips or advice
Let's drink to now and later on when we’ll go do what we do
It’s hard on a body doin jobs that a body don’t like
Love
We got debt but let me spend this check on you tonight
Love
One night vacation
One night vacation for two
One night vacation
It’s hard on a body doing jobs that the body don’t like love
One night
Knock that back lets get fresh and dressed
Grab your sweater and your specs
Feels good to know what’s next
I feel like dancin' down your steps
Let’s go to get less low off that blessed potion
When it sets in we get less social but more open
Out on the town with all these college kids
Tryna forget how small it is
We hit a dive with a vibe that fits
Run up a tab like my daddy's rich
Sayin all that we need to say
Tryna hold back with the PDA
It’s not so easy you lead the way
Let um all see it they’ll be okay
Take me away
I’m almost there
It’s almost time
To go to bed
With you again
I’ve had my share
So steer me slowly
Take me away
I’m almost there
It’s almost time to go
It’s hard on a body doin jobs that a body don’t like
Love
We got debt but let me spend this check on you tonight
Love
One night vacation
One night vacation for two
One night vacation
It’s hard on a body doing jobs that the body don’t like love
One night
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2. |
Loose
03:05
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Blue moon
Tuned in
Tonight
Put you in that mood you like
Spirit movin' now
Loosened you up you don’t care who cares
Look at you now it’s magic
Just laughin look like an actress hey
You just wanna listen to a classic,
Bounce it like a mattress
ManI’m outa practice hey
Sick of how slow just livin's been
Hard to get right being limited
You just wanna go where the rhythm is
And be in the crowd uninhibited
You can’t lay low
Said follow me
I obey so
I’ll probably wake up holding my head
I know what I’ll get
Showstopper
Go knock um out
You’ve been like champagne
That’s shook up
For days
Showstopper
Can’t lock you down
Go get loose like you used to do
60 odd hours a week on the wheel
I know you do it but how do you deal
I see how all of that’s making you feel
Let’s move to Finland think I’m for real
Let’s let’s let’s go
First we need a drink and a rest though
Two shots now you caught your wave
Moonwalk yeah you got the stage
I know you’ve been workin'
For what you already purchased
Concerned that it wasn’t worth it
It wont serve you don’t serve it okay
That’s really all I’ll say
If I had it all I’d pay
Sick a sellin' all these days
Sick of it in all these ways
And we don’t got a lot
But for now let’s spend some
Showstopper
Go knock um out
You’ve been like champagne
That’s shook up
For days
Showstopper
Can’t lock you down
Go get loose like you used to do
Let’s call your boss and say
You’ve had your fill
If he won’t play ball
Then that tea might spill
Yeah I know that you can’t go
Still feels good having ammo
Still feels good just to plan though
Let me just shut up and dance though
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3. |
King of Cups
02:25
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Been at it
Already had my tarot read
Things are looking up indeed
That’s what my tarot said
Been pumpin' out pheromones and wearin red
Young Jerry Lawler
A king
They’re not aware of it
Forty dollars of show money
Less what they stole from me
Blow it all bowlin' they say I roll funny
Go find me a snow bunny
Ask if this cold world’s makin' her nose runny
She melted
I wear a cape that is velvet
Couldn’t see it she felt it
See it all like I’m Elvish
Move my hips like I’m Elvis
Never pitch I sell it
Couldn’t picture me jealous
Turn a fan to a zealot
They’re tunin in when I tell it
There were sixteen people at the gig
Sayin, "Oh my god what fun this is!"
Did it all did it right did it big
Yeah buddy we were lovin' it
New cards
New deck
New life
King of cups
He comes upright
Always
All days
All nights
Sing do wah do wah do wah ay
Highly gifted my jacket’s thrifted
Watch me get a pattern shifted
Just actin different
Livin' in my minutes
I’m catalytic
That’s why they love to jack the style
Like it’s on a Civic
I will never pull the strings like an oligarch
Do my dance at the club with the lonely hearts
Watchin' all these little men try and be Bonaparte's
Then make the rest of us deal with their broken parts, ugh
Despite evil I like people
Put your hands in the air if your bipedal
Yeah If life is a film gimme five sequels
Tryna pull my thread through the plot like a fine needle
All of these lines equal proof that I live alone
Got the benefit of time to deliver flows
Eatin' creamy peanut butter
Buddy I lick the bowl
It brings my soul body into the physical
New cards
New deck
New life
King of cups
He comes upright
Always
All days
All nights
Sing do wah do wah do wah ay
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4. |
Lucky Man
03:52
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I know I’m lucky man
But I don’t feel lucky, man
Why can’t I feel what I know?
Still ain’t got what I wanted, man
Same cause, same sufferin'
I know I reap what I sow
I live off letters
Grip this lecturn
Give my lectures
Watch these kids play Tetris
Through my speech
Like experts
Uh
Im gettin old or whatever
Really dunno if I’m better
It’s winter I cope with the weather
Keep sayin I’ll go but I never
Been busy still growin' some feathers
It’s taken more than my effort
I think it’s luck that I need
A decade of just up and coming and still haven’t come to my senses or peak
Week after week
Runnin’ off too little sleep
And stubborn belief that borders blindness
Keepin pace and workin days with hopes the winds of fate will find us
I get mad at God
Watching billionaires
Get to play astronaut
God loves Musk and Bezos
Don’t those numbers say so
Should turn a mill
With all this breathe I waste
On what I hate most
I know I’m lucky man
But I don’t feel lucky, man
Why can’t I feel what I know?
Still ain’t got what I wanted, man
Same cause, same sufferin'
I know I reap what I sow
It’s all gunna end
Before my retirement
Play a sad song on the tiniest violin
I get so tired I can’t even cry a bit
Got too much data with no time to file it
Uh
These desperate urges surge up make me research crypto
With leverage might get wrecked at 30x or get rich quick though
I don’t know
I'll work it out
Know the odds they serve the house
Live my life when work allows
Got some drops and I’m thirsty now
And I know it’s the love that I get that’ll count
When it’s all said and done
But I wish this love would get me funds
I’ll send your cut when I get some
I know I’m lucky man
But I don’t feel lucky, man
Why can’t I feel what I know?
Still ain’t got what I wanted, man
Same cause, same sufferin'
I know I reap what I sow
Three known facts
Fees, loans, tax
Need more racks
Beans, bones, stacks
See what lacks
See who gets the surplus
Proceed to curse the system
Count ways that it won’t serve us
Oops I forgot to slow down
Busy makin' self-pity feel profound
When it’s hitting
There’s enough for me and to go round
Wishing in both hands
Look how much I hold now
Look how much I hold now
Look how much I hold now
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5. |
Rundown (Still Up)
02:19
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I’m in the pocket no rushin'
Do the job with no budget
Confident so no blushin
Don't complicate the discussion
I want no interruptions
Love a day full of nothin
Can’t make it do what it doesn't
Cool calm collected productions
I been waiting for the space just to lay low
Like a dog been runnin on my walks
Confrontations complications and my day job
Got me hopin that nobody wants to call or knock
Rundown
Still up
Tied to what I pursue
Before time runs out
Hope I get free
And you do too
I want a gap in my resume
Fill the space with some better days
Sick of waitin' for getaways
Stop the chase and just levitate
Put my faith in what resonates
Do the math then I hesitate
Wish a song would just detonate
Get me off of the clock
Put my weight where I’m blocked
Still think it’s possible
Holdin' off callin' audibles
Im lockin' in Im not gunna stop
Sick of limits on livin' my symptoms physical
Sweating every steps my minutes minimal
Cyclical days
Said it before
So much it’s pitiful
Got to get it shifted
Or give into what is typical
Rundown
Still up
Tied to what I pursue
Before time runs out
Hope I get free
And you do too
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Jim Swim Iowa City, Iowa
Artist/producer Jim Swim crafts wavy and warm music that snaps and has substance. Swim's songs unwind like good conversation, moving from the everyday to the abstract, the personal to the universal, with honest ease. His infectious beats, unique flow, and lyrical insight reward repeated listens and have won him a loyal following that continues to grow. ... more
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