the title of the song is an obvious reference to the movie "breaking away". a great movie that has been forgetten to a certain extent. As a dude who lives in a college town and went to college in a couple of college towns this is my obvious choice for best song on the album. The Hold Steady are always best when you feel, "I know these people". I've been both the townie and the guy hanging out with townies and it's true "they do seem just like us" till some moment when you're like what is wrong with these dudes. the townie concept is a great idea for a song that i've never seen exploited before. when it comes down to it it's all rather feudal and there's a tension in the air that is rarely acknowledged. This song is like a romeo and juliet for a college town where romeo's family lives in a trailer and juliet is a rich girl from a prosperous town 200 miles away.
the title of the song is an obvious reference to the movie "breaking away". a great movie that has been forgetten to a certain extent. As a dude who lives in a college town and went to college in a couple of college towns this is my obvious choice for best song on the album. The Hold Steady are always best when you feel, "I know these people". I've been both the townie and the guy hanging out with townies and it's true "they do seem just like us" till some moment when you're like what is wrong with these dudes. the townie concept is a great idea for a song that i've never seen exploited before. when it comes down to it it's all rather feudal and there's a tension in the air that is rarely acknowledged. This song is like a romeo and juliet for a college town where romeo's family lives in a trailer and juliet is a rich girl from a prosperous town 200 miles away.