I've gone off the deep end by listening to Big Star songs all week. Many of them over and over. I do that sometimes. I saw Big Star (2.0 version with Ken Stringfellow on bass) and I saw Alex Chilton thrice. Big Star and Alex Chilton will always have a dear place in my heart.
Thanks for being patient with me during my Big Star binge, my friends.....
For those who don't know, the lyrics of this song are from a free paper in Minneapolis called City Pages. Paul Westerberg simply read from a classified dating section called Lovelines...
A song about living in Minnesota and being "stuck" between both coasts.
"Out east they got heat But we got mosquitoes They got a west coast scene Lemme tell ya where the grass grows Down south they get so drunk They think they're gonna piddle Ah there ain't nowhere to go When you're stuck right in the middle Nothing on the left Nothing on the right Nothing on the left Nothing on the right Stuck in Stuck in the middle Stuck in Stuck in the middle Burgers on the grill Oh what a thrill I got a head full of teeth Got a pocket full of nothing Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty one Stuck in the middle Lemme tell ya is some fun"
A song about living in Minnesota and being "stuck" between both coasts.
"Out east they got heat But we got mosquitoes They got a west coast scene Lemme tell ya where the grass grows Down south they get so drunk They think they're gonna piddle Ah there ain't nowhere to go When you're stuck right in the middle Nothing on the left Nothing on the right Nothing on the left Nothing on the right Stuck in Stuck in the middle Stuck in Stuck in the middle Burgers on the grill Oh what a thrill I got a head full of teeth Got a pocket full of nothing Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty one Stuck in the middle Lemme tell ya is some fun"
At least y'all are close to Canada, down here in landlocked middle of nowhere Kansas there's really nothin'.
_________________ The phone ping from a pillow fort in a corn maze I don't have a horse in your war games I don't even really like horses I like wild orchids and neighbors with wide orbits