Lyric discussion by anonymiad 

Cover art for 40 Bucks lyrics by Hold Steady, The

came here to add these and found them already here... i love it, for the record. it reminds of me of "certain songs", which i guess makes sense, but this is just one story, in full detail, rather than a few told kind of vaguely. i love the description of the dad's song - "a sad slow waltz about a pure and simple love" - sounds like "first night", right?

I think that "First Night" is one of the farthest things from pure and simple love, personally.