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Nickel Creek – When in Rome Lyrics 17 years ago
Actually, the sayng is "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."
Anyway.
This song is about Nickel Creek's move away from more traditional bluegrass & folk music into the rock (and other) influenced sound, and the backlash they received from the bluegrass community.

"Bring in some new blood/it feels like we're alone" speaks to the alienation from much of the more traditional community. The end of their production relationship with Alison Krauss was a first step, and the eevolution of their music continued down that road.

Too bad they split up - they were phenomenal, inventive, and original.

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