This song is partially about the love he thinks is on the other side of the world.
The other compontnet of this song is John's(band member) infatuation h with the 1964 Worlds Fair. He went when he was a kid and became enthralled. He has spoken about this publilcly.
Anyhow...he imagines that Ana was at the Worlds Fair and mabey he just missed her "why was the bench still warm who had been there?" ANother Worlds Fair reference "80 dolls yelling 'Small girl after all' "comes from Disney's "It's a Small World" ride which debuted at you guessed it... The 1964 Worlds Fair.
@mrrogers The Pepsi Pavilion where "Small World" debuted was in the same area of the fair as the alluded-to DuPont Pavilion. I'd forgotten that, had to look it up now on a map of the fair, but I went there a lot as a 10-11 YO New Yorker. If you came out of G.E. (a favorite of mine), one way was DuPont and the other was Pepsi and Kodak.
@mrrogers The Pepsi Pavilion where "Small World" debuted was in the same area of the fair as the alluded-to DuPont Pavilion. I'd forgotten that, had to look it up now on a map of the fair, but I went there a lot as a 10-11 YO New Yorker. If you came out of G.E. (a favorite of mine), one way was DuPont and the other was Pepsi and Kodak.
This song is partially about the love he thinks is on the other side of the world.
The other compontnet of this song is John's(band member) infatuation h with the 1964 Worlds Fair. He went when he was a kid and became enthralled. He has spoken about this publilcly.
Anyhow...he imagines that Ana was at the Worlds Fair and mabey he just missed her "why was the bench still warm who had been there?" ANother Worlds Fair reference "80 dolls yelling 'Small girl after all' "comes from Disney's "It's a Small World" ride which debuted at you guessed it... The 1964 Worlds Fair.
@mrrogers The Pepsi Pavilion where "Small World" debuted was in the same area of the fair as the alluded-to DuPont Pavilion. I'd forgotten that, had to look it up now on a map of the fair, but I went there a lot as a 10-11 YO New Yorker. If you came out of G.E. (a favorite of mine), one way was DuPont and the other was Pepsi and Kodak.
@mrrogers The Pepsi Pavilion where "Small World" debuted was in the same area of the fair as the alluded-to DuPont Pavilion. I'd forgotten that, had to look it up now on a map of the fair, but I went there a lot as a 10-11 YO New Yorker. If you came out of G.E. (a favorite of mine), one way was DuPont and the other was Pepsi and Kodak.