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Baltimore
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Americana
Baltimore was released on October 24, 2025 by Bloodshot Records as a part of the album Crowd Pleaser
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Release DateOctober 24, 2025
LabelBloodshot Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM91

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Joelton Mayfield
Joelton Mayfield
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Joelton Mayfield
Joelton Mayfield
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Joelton Mayfield
Joelton Mayfield
Producer
Alberto Sewald
Alberto Sewald
Mixing Engineer
Connor Gilmore
Connor Gilmore
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

met a man from Baltimore
on the other side of the smoke deck door
telling jokes about himself
and his band
walked them through a big punchline
just as you drew your hand from mine
Thursday night and drinks were half-price
but the bar was mostly dead
when you got back from the bathroom,
we closed the tab and headed home
called a cab, crawled in the back,
and I curled up next to you
drifting off in the backseat,
wrapped around you wrapped into me,
melting from my body
out of time and out of tune
and right into
the crown of your head
where the brown of your hair
fades to grey
the paint chipping off of your chair
on your back porch sitting there
next to me
in the morning when I woke up
to the rain blown against the window,
your eyelids were still glued shut
around your steady shifting blues
like hands under tablecloths
slowly skimming back and forth,
a searchlight through a prison yard,
a lighthouse through the brume
I picture what you’re dreaming,
draw the scene and learn to leave it,
lulled back into sleeping
lightning strikes and thunder rolls
and I see it all in my head
lying right there in bed:
there’s a golden bowling alley up above
where god’s throwing gutter balls again
and drinking wine with the son of man
and on the jukebox, “The Man in Me” plays
soft and low
and with the whole world in my hands,
I am on deck with arms bent
and shoulders slacked,
sliding my toes in my shoes
but before I swing back the globe,
I feel you come in close,
and blinking, your thawing bright face
is all I know
and all I ever want to
Written by: Joelton Mayfield
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