Post by troublkepnyerhedup on Sept 27, 2004 11:30:53 GMT -5
Taking "23 Years Ago" as the central song, and leaving off the first three and the last two tracks on Folker, there are some threads of a possible story line that run through the middle part of the album. Marriage, lesbians, love triangles, lost (and found) love, love that's a memory or a fantasy, reignited love. You could almost patch together a script:
Back in 1980, a boy from the Upper Midwest meets a girl in cowboy boots on a warm night in Texas. They hold hands, but he's being faithful to another girl back home--or in his imagination. Years pass, and they see each other every so often one place or another, more or less by chance. Sometime along the way, she comes out of the closet, he get married, though they remain into each other. Then, after both have rounded the corner into middle age, something re-ignites their off-again, off-again romance. She calls him from Texas: "Get your ass down here so we can talk." He books a flight, but gets cold feet, being married and afraid, and calls off the reunion. He's left thinking of the affair as something that was only a distant memory, a figment, something that might have been or maybe never was.
Back in 1980, a boy from the Upper Midwest meets a girl in cowboy boots on a warm night in Texas. They hold hands, but he's being faithful to another girl back home--or in his imagination. Years pass, and they see each other every so often one place or another, more or less by chance. Sometime along the way, she comes out of the closet, he get married, though they remain into each other. Then, after both have rounded the corner into middle age, something re-ignites their off-again, off-again romance. She calls him from Texas: "Get your ass down here so we can talk." He books a flight, but gets cold feet, being married and afraid, and calls off the reunion. He's left thinking of the affair as something that was only a distant memory, a figment, something that might have been or maybe never was.
