Summer Songs, Part Two: Guess Who Just Got Back Today
In 1997 I moved into a two bedroom apartment in southeast Gainesville with my friend Steve. It was a decent place, and while it certainly wasn’t the happiest time of my life–I spent the first couple months unemployed, and the next six months too poor to afford meat–I wasn’t alone in my suffering. My friend Jeff, looking to improve his life a bit, moved to Gainesville about six months after me, and while he was looking for work and a place to live he stayed with Steve and me.
One day in early summer 1998, Jeff came home from being out all day and told us about a song he had heard that day. “I always immediately turn off a song when I hear ridiculous harmony guitars, but today I decided to listen”. “What was it”, Steve asked. “The Boys Are Back in Town”.
“The Boys Are Back in Town” is, strictly speaking, a spring song, since the speaker declares that “it won’t be long till summer comes, now that the boys are here again”. But whenever I hear it now, because of Jeff, I think back on that early summer of 1998, and the ridiculous harmony guitars make me smile.
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