this song contemplates the deathly feeling of summer in a college town (carbondale is home to southern illinois university). the speaker feels the emptiness left by the vacant dorms and frat houses. while he's glad those shitty college kids are gone, he seems to be missing someone in particular.
highway 51 runs right through the center of carbondale and heads north towards chicagoland hitting other college towns on the way. the band is now based out of chicago. apparently the speaker got sick enough of the desolate and brutally hot summers that he decided to bust out of that one horse town once and for all. a lot of their other lyrics make allusions to carbondale's basement punk scene though, which centers around the longest standing punk house in the world, Lost Cross.
this song contemplates the deathly feeling of summer in a college town (carbondale is home to southern illinois university). the speaker feels the emptiness left by the vacant dorms and frat houses. while he's glad those shitty college kids are gone, he seems to be missing someone in particular.
highway 51 runs right through the center of carbondale and heads north towards chicagoland hitting other college towns on the way. the band is now based out of chicago. apparently the speaker got sick enough of the desolate and brutally hot summers that he decided to bust out of that one horse town once and for all. a lot of their other lyrics make allusions to carbondale's basement punk scene though, which centers around the longest standing punk house in the world, Lost Cross.