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The Best Ever Boom Box Cassette Tape from Durham

by Fishboy

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A Denton, TX songwriter's response and tribute to the first track on All Hail West Texas by the Mountain Goats and the struggle of having your city mentioned in a piece of music with an ever growing amount of popularity.

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The boom box cassette tape released out of Durham
has a hit song about my home town
For the past twenty years when I'd go out touring
The audience asks me if I know about
The first track on the boom box cassette tape from Durham
The truth is I know it by heart
And though I don't think of it as an influence
I'm fluent talking about how its actually not
It's just sounds that way
When he sings the name of my home

Oh I was up Thursday night and I started counting
The hundred or so songs I've made
Career engineers, pristine vintage gear
And yet nothing comes near
The impact of that magical
Boom box cassette tape reissued in Durham
was yelled at the stage Friday night
Like a thunderstorm pourin on low elevation
My thoughts they dropped out of my mouth
As I yelled in the mic
Oh my voice it shakes
And my glasses raise
as I pinch the bridge of my nose

"Oh it's well worth remembering
We are all persons
People are human
Humans are broken and flawed
But you mentioned
A goat on a mountain
Hailin to Satan
He ain't from Texas at--"

All at once I'm frozen
And after several moments
I open my mouth
and these words fall out:

"Oh I cannot complain if you don't know my name
But you know if the place where I'm found
At the end of the day I am grateful to play
There is so much to gain anyhow
How much time do we waste comparing our place
To the places of those in the crowd?
When the boom box cassette tape released out of Durham
will be here when we're in the ground."

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released February 11, 2022
Written/Performed/Recorded/Mixed by Eric Michener

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