Cocaine Ruins Everything

from Some of Us Are Free, Some of Us Are Lost by Bob Hillman

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Yesterday I made my children listen to
A fascinating David Crosby interview
The temperamental singer whose life went off the rails
Who battled his addictions and ended up in jail

The story of the sixties was creativity
First with marijuana
Later LSD
The seventies were different:
We were too messed up to sing
Cocaine ruins everything

From the psychedelic rock-and-roll machine
To the meditative Laurel Canyon scene
Intimate communion, consciousness expands
A legacy of music, legendary bands

The story of the sixties was creativity
Living in the present
Open-heartedly
The seventies were different:
We were too messed up to sing
Cocaine ruins everything

Working for a living, living on the bus
Bored off their asses, playing songs for us
Powdering their noses, learning how to live
With creeping paranoia, dark and secretive

The story of the sixties was creativity
A transcendental moment
But, regrettably,
The seventies were different:
We were too messed up to sing
Cocaine ruins everything
Cocaine ruined everything

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from Some of Us Are Free, Some of Us Are Lost, released April 19, 2019
Bob Hillman – acoustic guitar, vocals
Jonny Flaugher – electric bass
Phil Krohnengold – Wurlitzer, synthesizer
Griffin Goldsmith – drums, percussion
Rich Hinman – pedal steel
Sarah Dugas - harmony

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Bob Hillman is navigating the second act of a career that began in the late 90s, flourished in the early 00s, survived ten years of “real jobs,” and resumed in 2016 with the Peter Case- produced Lost Soul.

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