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Of course i'm speaking in generalizations and from my own experiences, but when you're a townie, the best thing about landing a college girl or guy is that they're not defined by the town and therefore not limited by it in the way that you are. And I don't mean physically limited, I mean imaginatively limited. You're a townie, you've had an us/them relationship with the college your entire life. Possibility is for them. The town is for us. Parents that look and act like TV parents, spring break, Abercrombie and Fitch, that's for them. Towmotors, the Grocer's Union, the loop, Stoney's Bar, that's for us. So that you don't even question it. You do you're thing, they do theirs. Until paths cross. For the college kid, they're just slumming, hanging out at a locals bar and getting a first taste of real life. For the townie, it's like getting a Viewmaster for Christmas and sitting there under the crap tree while your dad snores drunk asleep and your mom and sister fight and slide by slide moving away from it all, getting a real childhood, the kind that you never really believed existed. That college girl or guy has parents who give a shit, teachers who give a shit, they ran through the sprinklers in summer and went to camp and had birthday parties and went camping with dad. And you can't get enough of those memories, they're great, you think about them all the time and they become your memories. And when that person leaves, because they will, because they're moving and you're standing still - when they leave you don't care about losing them so much but they take those memories with them and you feel 100X more desolate after than you did before. And all you want is to have it all back. So that's what this tune is about.
Musically, it's typical tempie pop, although i'm trying to move into more Swedish Pop territory, or my idea of it. I love that rainy day electronic stuff that makes you happy and melancholy at the same time, or maybe happy to be melancholy.
Musically, it's typical tempie pop, although i'm trying to move into more Swedish Pop territory, or my idea of it. I love that rainy day electronic stuff that makes you happy and melancholy at the same time, or maybe happy to be melancholy.
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Lyrics
eddie grant
singing electric avenue
you're on the trampoline
sunning in your swimsuit
ten speed leaning on the backyard gate
you and your friends
are gonna ride to the arcade
it's 1982
it's 1982
baby, please come back to me
we can take it slow
you can start class in the spring
your momma sent you gnr tickets
and a baskin robbins birthday cake
i sold you beer at the stadium concessions
even though you id was obviously fake
i played the older guy
you moved your stuff to my place
my friends were jealous
your friends said it was a mistake
it was 1992
it was 1992
baby, please come back to me
we can take it slow
you can start class in the spring
singing electric avenue
you're on the trampoline
sunning in your swimsuit
ten speed leaning on the backyard gate
you and your friends
are gonna ride to the arcade
it's 1982
it's 1982
baby, please come back to me
we can take it slow
you can start class in the spring
your momma sent you gnr tickets
and a baskin robbins birthday cake
i sold you beer at the stadium concessions
even though you id was obviously fake
i played the older guy
you moved your stuff to my place
my friends were jealous
your friends said it was a mistake
it was 1992
it was 1992
baby, please come back to me
we can take it slow
you can start class in the spring
aRcTip
Really nice song. Great chorus and brilliant at 02:00 onwards. The song description was fascinating to read. It's like a movie I want to see!