This is the official music video for the Rock (Jam Band) song, Love Is a Terrible Thing to Waste by the Southern California band the Ram taken from the EP/album, I Am Nowhere I Am Everywhere (release date is April 18, 2025). The single is out now on all streaming platforms.
ABOUT THE SONG:
There’s a few events that comes to mind when I think of this song, they all point back to being a broke artist living in East Coast cities. I know NYC and Philadelphia well. When I lived in each of those cities, I never had two pennies to rub together. Those were good times. I’ve been robbed, ridiculed, beaten, and cheated, but never broken. The experience made me who I am today: I stood up for myself, and learned to recognize my people. With them I shared time with some of the most beautiful moments of my life. Many are gone, with respect to them, their memories, I wouldn’t change a thing. I know that each experience was a stepping stone to where ai am today.
I don’t know how I came out unscathed. I don’t wish on anyone the experience being chased down the street by an unsavory character in Camden, NJ, or doing the same in a Brooklyn subway, or on Fordham Ave in the Bronx on foot while buying weed from a rasta. Nothing bad happened, I never got stabbed or shot, and for that I consider myself lucky. Travel and life in our cities has taught me to love all people, be aware of your present surroundings, because tomorrow is not guaranteed. Not at all.
LYRICS:
Take to the street to play music
Got my amplifier, open guitar case
All of the hookers and hustlers
Gonna make em move, where they congregate
Let me tell you
Prostitution’s illegal but ya’d never know by the look of this place
Mind you I’ve got no problem ’cause I tell you LOVE, is a terrible thing to waste
Ask me where Im going, I’m going way down town
Ask me what I’ll be up to, said I’m a gonna spread a little love around
A little love around
Little love around
Little love around
Little love around
Playing myself some guitar, got a big old smile, right across my face
I’ve been out here for 3 hours, I think its about time, to smoke a jay
Inspiration she finds me, on a crowded sidewalk or just about any place
When I’m with her I hold her so closely ‘ cause I tell you love is a terrible thing to waste
Ask me where Im going, I’m going way down town
Ask me what I’ll be up to, said I’m a gonna spread a little love around
Little love around yeah
Little love around
Love, love around yeah
METADATA:
Love Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
The Ram
UPC: 199080246245
ISRC: QZHN52570341
Release date: April 18, 2025
ASCAP Work ID: T9275161847
ASCAP Singer Songwriter IPI Number: 375350750
ASCAP Publisher IPI Number: 375351159
ABOUT THE VIDEO:
A few years back I took my brother Tommy to the holy ground (Ireland) as a thank you for being my big brother. I was raised with a piece of sod from Clifden in a case sitting next to the History of the Irish Race, by Seumas MacManus. It was a piece of the holy land, at least that’s what those of Irish ancestry call it. The case with glass doors was right by the Telefunken (our stereo), which played nonstop albums by the Clancy Brothers, the Dubliners, and so many folk singers of the era. My father loved that music.
In the video you’ll get to meet my brother, most people I’ve introduced him to will tell me after getting to know him, that I’m a dickhead in comparison. They only thought I was cool, until they met him, which is hilarious. So needless to say I feel like I’ve won the lottery with having him as a brother, and thought a trip to Ireland was a great way to say “thank you”. I thought about trying to shoot a video that’s true to the lyrics, busking on the streets of American cities, and all the colorful characters in the process, but this trip to Ireland seemed more fitting. Here’s why.
Once we agreed to go to Ireland, we also agreed that to avoid drinking too much, we’d bring guitars and try to play every pub we went to. It was a stroke of pure genius to plan on plying music in pubs to avoid drinking, that’s for sure. It sounded like a braggadocios pipe dream, but we soon found out that people there absolutely love American Music, especially early country and rock n’ roll. We ended up playing just about every pub we went to, because you simply just don’t walk into a bar in Ireland with guitars and not play. Hopefully someday I’ll finish the documentary “Ireland or Busk”, but this is a little past of the good times we had.
Check out all the other videos from the new album, “I Am Nowhere, I Am Everywhere” by the Ram out April 18, 2025.
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