Shannon’s Perspective:
“In this town there might be nowhere to hide
In this town there might be nowhere to go but…”
It has been a nice break from the heaviness of last month’s posts to just have some songs from when we were both much much younger to relive and enjoy together.
Remember what I said way earlier in this project (February 24th, 2024 to be exact) with my Main Street entry? Well the first line in this song probably falls into that same category:
"Think I might get lucky tonight"
You need to move past that and listen to the rest of the song.
This song came out in 1989 - the same year I (and Shannon) graduated high school - so a very impressionable age. I've always loved it, but now that I'm so much older, it hits a little different.
Moving here to Kansas has reignited my memories of small town, which is what I grew up experiencing (relative to small town Ohio, not Kansas). There's just a lot of nostalgia in this song that is feel good with a small helping of melancholy.
As I listened to Shannon's lyric choice - let me expand a little more:
There is, quite literally, nothing to do. Eating out? That is not an option - mainly because the options do not exist. There's no Easton Mall. There is a one screen theatre that is only open Friday, Saturday and Sunday (though it was closed last weekend due to the Cheyenne County Fair). We used to do little road-trips to see all the places I or we lived in in Ohio; we can literally see Shannon's house sitting on our front porch. Speaking of front porch, I am recently geeked up because we bought an outdoor couch so I could sit on it and yell at kids walking on my lawn. This, my friends, is the small town life I never knew I wanted, but needed...
P.S. You just can't go wrong with The Outfield...
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