Tallahassee

I absolutly love this song and appriciate it more than most I being that I live in Tallahassee.

When after describing "Half the whole town gone for the summer" and then adding "There is no deadline/ There is no schedule" the pictues he paints musically along with such simple words of Tallahassee's mood when empty during the slack months is so perfectly accurate...I love it.

i love how perfectly it punctuates his love. there is no need for hustle and bustle when he has 'you'

Has anyone else noticed that the opening bass line sounds a lot like the tape noise on his old recordings? It has that same driving rhythm, and it opens up the song, just like the tape noise did on the old record. I'm positive that the bass line was deliberately made to sound like that.

"Prayers to summon the destroying angel Moon stuttering in the sky like film stuck in a projector And you"

and that, my friends, is nothing short of brilliant songwriting.

Anyone who lives in a college town can relate to the "half the whole town" line.

What did I come down here for? That speaks to everyone in this damn town who moved for a lover, only to have it fall apart.

Crushing. One of his best.

I live in Tallahassee, Florida, too. This song brings a smile to my face. I love this town so much.

I see, so the album starts at the end, and ends up right back where it started.

Just as Blithium said, it starts at the end. His life is ruined, his life in shambles.
No deadline, no schedule, no way to trace it. Too much shit went on for too long and there's nothing left to do at all, and the person he came down for means nothing to him anymore. I imagine the inspiration for this album came from looking at the old white trash houses with the burned out alcoholics waiting around for life to end, and wondering what happened to in their lives to end up like this.

There are two ways to interpret this song.

1. At the end of their story "The road this far can't be retraced. There is no punch line anybody can tack on" or 2. The couple have just bought their house and on their fist night they are beginning to realize the truly horrific mistake they both have made.