I think "Dictionaries and Boomboxes" is a reference to the movie Say Anything. There's a part where Lloyd (John Cusack) and Diane (Ione Skye) are in Diane's room and Lloyd points out Diane's "mother dictionary" and Diane tells him that when she was little she used to look up a new word in the dictionary every day. And then there's the famous boombox scene, where Lloyd stands under Diane's window blasting "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel after they fought. If the song title is a reference to Say Anything, then the guys in TGA did a great job of picking out objects that show what make the characters tick. In Diane's case, it's language and academics, and Lloyd has his music.
My apologies if I focused too much on the movie rather than the song.
I think "Dictionaries and Boomboxes" is a reference to the movie Say Anything. There's a part where Lloyd (John Cusack) and Diane (Ione Skye) are in Diane's room and Lloyd points out Diane's "mother dictionary" and Diane tells him that when she was little she used to look up a new word in the dictionary every day. And then there's the famous boombox scene, where Lloyd stands under Diane's window blasting "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel after they fought. If the song title is a reference to Say Anything, then the guys in TGA did a great job of picking out objects that show what make the characters tick. In Diane's case, it's language and academics, and Lloyd has his music. My apologies if I focused too much on the movie rather than the song.