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behind the counter in a small town

spidersscaremespidersscareme Posts: 6
edited April 2005 in Words and Music...Communication
I've always wondered if Ed got the idea for this song while sitting in a small town diner or something somewhere while a reunion was taking place between one of the workers and an old friend. Or maybe he just noticed some strange looks and body language from one person to another, and that inspired him to come up with the scenario in the song. Maybe he was the other person.
What do you think?
Has this been talked about & answered already?
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  • EDDIEisMINEEDDIEisMINE Posts: 101
    spidersscareme wrote:
    I've always wondered if Ed got the idea for this song while sitting in a small town diner or something somewhere while a reunion was taking place between one of the workers and an old friend. Or maybe he just noticed some strange looks and body language from one person to another, and that inspired him to come up with the scenario in the song. Maybe he was the other person.
    What do you think?
    Has this been talked about & answered already?


    I think its about when he comes back to atlanta in 2040 and stops in at the local bank. : ) /\__/\
  • Born2JamBorn2Jam Posts: 255
    I don't get that.
    Are you saying he wrote a song about a premonition of going into an Atlanta bank when he's around 75?

    I agree with Indifferent.
    It's probably much deeper than that.
    "This band has provided many people a soundtrack to their lives.." ~ CitizenRick
  • EDDIEisMINEEDDIEisMINE Posts: 101
    It was an inside joke. ;)
  • Born2JamBorn2Jam Posts: 255
    Ooooooookeeeeeeee.

    I think I'm glad I'm not inside.
    "This band has provided many people a soundtrack to their lives.." ~ CitizenRick
  • EDDIEisMINEEDDIEisMINE Posts: 101
    say, r u the born2jam from satans?
  • spidersscaremespidersscareme Posts: 6
    The Indifferent One wrote:
    I do think it is more deep than that.


    Um, Yeeeees. There are obviously deeper meanings in the actual song.

    However, that doesn't mean that it couldn't have been inspired by an actual event, and I just took up a curiousity on what that event might be. It could be something interesting.

    Also, one interpretation of the song is of an empathic view of another's perspective (on one level). I think that he does try to put himself behind others' eyes in some songs, and that is one thing that I like about them.
  • Thin Air 211Thin Air 211 Posts: 114
    i always wondered where this song came from...
    `~.:.~`.History doesn't make something right`~.:.~`
  • DarkStarDarkStar Posts: 734
    at the October 30, 1999 bridge show Eddie said that EWBTCIAST was written "just over the hill" ... in local lingo "over the hill" is a reference to traveling over the Santa Cruz mountains...to get from Santa Cruz to San Jose (vice versa) you go "over the hill"...anyway, Neil Young has a place in the Santa Cruz mountains and I believe that Eddie was saying that the song was written out at Neil's place...or close by...

    there's a small town in the Santa Cruz mountains called Boulder Creek ... I always pictured the song to be about this particular small town...

    ds
    And no one sings me lullabyes
    And no one makes me close my eyes
    So I throw the windows wide
    And call to you across the sky....
  • dreadheaddreadhead Posts: 64
    when PJ were in Perth Eddie dedicated the song to " all the people from yallingup" which is a small town in a little bay with some great surf, bout 3 hours down south of perth. from wat i know of eddie it would b like paradise for him
    "I wish I was Australian at home under the sun" Eddie- Perth 03
  • Off_EK_GoesOff_EK_Goes Posts: 22
    EDDIEisMINE wrote:
    say, r u the born2jam from satans?

    Say, are you Candace?
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