| The Dream Academy – Life in a Northern Town Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is why I love this site. This has always been one of my favorite songs of all time and now I know why. Now I have some homework to do about Nick Drake. As a person who returned home after 10 years to my snow NE Ohio town this song also hits me in the gut every time I heard it. It reminds me of my past and what this town used to be like when I was growing up in the 1970s. It's simply a beautiful song and now I know it's also a beautiful tribute. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Queen of the Supermarket Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I have to say I'm amazed I'm the first one commenting here, but, oh well. This is really a departure from a lot of other Springsteen unrequited love songs in its dreamlike arrangement. There's also a lack of road-car-anomie-escape in this one. What we have seems to be a very mundane situation but with Bruce, it's really anything but. This is really such a beautiful song but also it speaks to the whole idea that the woman of your dreams might be wearing a company cap in a supermarket. It reminds me of the lyric from "Crush on You" -- "Well now she might be the talk of high society She's probably got a lousy personality She might be a heiress to Rockefeller She might be a waitress or a bank teller" And that's what I take away from this song. We find true love in the most unlikely places. It's almost a dream sequence song but ends up with an almost trademark 'reason to believe:' "As I lift my groceries in to my car I turn back for a moment and catch a smile That blows this whole fucking place apart" That saves the song from terminally sappy which, in this case, Bruce went up to the line but didn't quite cross it. Too bad about the F bomb in this case - unless dubbed it will never be on commercial radio. And that's a shame. In retrospect, this is my favorite song on the CD which, generally, I was disappointed with. "Magic" was so much better - maybe the Boss should have waited and worked a little longer before releasing "Working on a Dream." It reminds me too much of "Lucky Town." |
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