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New Day Dawn

from Songs of Wanderlust by The Ram

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One morning in Upstate New York found me on a rooftop drinking a little wine, and smoking some weed with the surviving members of a party from the night before. It was the day my cousin Salty graduated college by Lake Seneca in western New York State.

Ain’t no right, ain’t no wrong, when you sit and watch a new day dawn!

Visiting any college town was always an irresistible proposition during the years I went to university. Each college town was a new group of people of the same age group, making something out of nothing. Little else mattered back then. Every time I sing this song I laugh about the policeman who tried to talk us down from that roof. First threatening us, almost slipping off himself, then cussing us as he departed into his frustrated morning duties of crushing doughnuts.

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Ain't no right ain't no wrong
When you sit and watch a new day dawn
Ain't no wrong ain't no right
Been sittin' since the dark of night

Walked myself to the edge of town
Made damn sure no one follow me down
Yes and to keep myself a little company
Well I got a little hipper from the whiskey family

But it don't
No it don't
Yes it don't
Matter much now anyway

All alone
All alone
One and only
Let me get my thinking straight

Just cut the cable and the TV screen
Just a rabid dog barking back at me
So many voices chiming through my head
Can't put a face to all the words just said

Get more listening to the wind and rain
Or the rumble of a diesel train
Cause a mans a man, a fact's a fact
Those are lies and we can't be lied to like that

But it don't
No it don't
Yes it don't
Matter much now anyway

All alone
All alone
One and only
Let me get my thinking straight

Can't tell a lie through a song
Expect folks to listen all that long
Guitar note catch a breeze and off it goes
Who's going to catch them I don't know

Over top a voice gonna hit that note
You know it's coming from a bluesman's throat
Thats my version of a TV screen
You see it doesn't have to be all obscene

But it don't
No it don't
Yes it don't
Matter much now anyway

All alone
All alone
One and only
Let me get my thinking straight

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from Songs of Wanderlust, released October 20, 2023

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The Ram is a traveling singer-songwriter based out of North County San Diego, CA. Part of traveling means we play with musicians from all walks of life and exposure to all sorts of different genres, styles, and instrumentation. It's the pure freedom a songwriter needs to pivot, working with a collective of musical talent as opposed to managing a working band in a specific genre or class of music. ... more

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