Jamie Halmick

[audio:https://jamiehalmick.com/audio/coffins-are-cars.mp3|titles=Coffins Are Cars|artists=Jamie Halmick]

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It’s six in the morning and the sun’s going down
I sit in the silence and listen to sounds
I’ve been sleeping and waking and sleeping some more
Trying to decide if I’ll head out the door

Because cars are like coffins and coffins are cars
I really don’t want to go very far
I drive towards a skyline that ends with a curve
And keep my direction through a lack of nerve
To turn off the music and roll the glass down
And hear my own thoughts blowing around

Because cars are like coffins and coffins are cars
I really don’t want to go very far
I put carts before horses as I head into town
I’ll run a lost ad for what I have found
I pick myself up and put myself down
And once I’ve arrived I can turn back around

Because cars are like coffins and coffins are cars
I really don’t want to go very far

Capo 3rd Fret
Em (walk bass string down)
Chorus: G-D-C-Em -- G-D-C-Em

[audio:https://jamiehalmick.com/audio/i-like-people.mp3|titles=I Like People|artists=Jamie Halmick]

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I have a car to take me places
where I want to go
I take my car to people places
To be with people I know
And I know most people aren’t worth knowing
Seems it’s all for show

I like her, I like him, I like you and I like them…
I like people…
I like people…
I like people to leave me alone.

I have a place to go to work
Every day I go to there
I’ve got a job with lots of people
Who act like they care
But I don’t care about all that
All that’s just not fair
I like her, I like him, I like you and I like them…
I like people…
I like people…
I like people to leave me alone.

I like her, I like him, I like you and I like them…
I like blue, I like green, I like nice but I like mean
I like right, I like wrong, I like silence and I like song
I like truth, I like lying, I like living and I like dying
I like sleep, I like wake, I like give and I like take
I like will, I like fate, I like love and I like hate
I hate people…
I hate people…
I hate people just leave me alone!

G - Em7 - G - Em7 - Am
Bridge = Am - Em - Am - Em
Em7 is Em playing the highest two strings as G

[audio:https://jamiehalmick.com/audio/paper-thoughts.mp3|titles=Paper Thoughts|artists=Jamie Halmick]

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I wonder when you will be here with me as if I’d already known
Keeping myself up in the dark of night alone because I’m alone
Hey diddle die I’m my Mother’s son
Hey diddle die I’m my Dad
Hey diddle dee your my girl my one
Hey diddle dee I’m your man

I worry about what to worry about and worry if worry is right
I wrap myself up in paper thoughts until I can’t see any light
Hey diddle die I’m my Mother’s son
Hey diddle die I’m my Dad
Hey diddle dee it’s my daughter’s turn
Hey diddle dee I’m a Dad

Capo 5th fret
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[audio:https://jamiehalmick.com/audio/two-trees.mp3|titles=Two Trees|artists=Jamie Halmick]

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These two trees have rooted too close together
Each one’s branches grow away from the other

Night after night, the leaves in the windy weather
the roots in the earth try to hold it together

But these two trees never grew as one
They just kept reaching for separate sun
But are the roots deep enough to hold on
Can they hold on
Oh, can they hold on
To this place
Two children come, they begin to climb up together
They each pick a tree and climb ’til the branches shudder

They swing to and fro, there’s a crack of dust and thunder
They lie on the ground still in the broken under

These two trees never grew as one
They just kept reaching for separate sun
Their roots aren’t deep enough to hold on
They couldn’t hold on
They couldn’t hold on

Capo on fifth fret
G - C/G - Em - Am - D

[audio:https://jamiehalmick.com/audio/you-dont-always-have-to-be-right.mp3|titles=You Don’t Always Have To Be Right|artists=Jamie Halmick]

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there’s a touch to everything
there’s a feeling involved
some are good some are bad
some i’ve never had
hope i never will

every little thing you do
could come back to you
you don’t always have to be right
but you should mean well in what you do

there’s a reason for everything
underneath it all
well i wonder if that’s true
if it is then it’s cruel
what about all the bad?

every little thing you do
could come back to you
you don’t always have to be right
but you should mean well in what you do

deep inside there’s an energy
that’s kept in us all
it’s a love for everything
let it out it will make you sing
so loud and so real

there’s something good in everyone
you don’t always get to see
that’s tragic and it’s sad
and sometimes it makes me mad
but that doesn’t help at all

every little thing you do
could come back to you
you don’t always have to be right
but you should mean well in what you do

every little thing you do
could come back to you
you don’t always have to be right
but you should mean well in what you do

i don’t know if i’m right
but i mean well…. i really do.

[audio:https://jamiehalmick.com/audio/unwilling-cannibals.mp3|titles=Unwilling Cannibals|artists=Jamie Halmick]

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There are a lot of people under a lot of pressure putting pressure on me
I have no apetite they have a hunger and they are looking at me
They’re about to be unwilling canibals, me unwilling meat

Put a little salt on me
Put a little fire under me
Get your knives out and eat me

I have no idea how this could have happened I was just trying to get by
But I joined this tribe and I just don’t belong now I’m afraid I could die
I’m not like them and I wish I could leave but this rope sort of has me tied

Put a little salt on me
Put a little fire under me
Get your knives out and eat me

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this is uncontrollable
it’s out of control
i don’t know where we’re going
but i don’t think this is good

because the mood is shear and scary
i’ve completely lost my head
oh i don’t know where we’re headed
but i know that i’m afraid

and the fear is really real
with the laughter’s silly feel
and everyone… and everyone…. and everyone
is a part of it all now

i’m screaming at my neighbor
and fighting my family tree
so i can be more alone
while i’m losing myself… lost.

you don’t have a chance
everyone of us will die
but giving up is pointless too
so join me while i live… on.

and the fear is really real
with the laughter’s silly feel
and everyone… and everyone…. and everyone
is a part of it all now

join me…. join me…. join me…..
everyone… oh, everyone of us…

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endemic
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systemic
acedemic
epidemic

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it’s music. it’s music.