
The Best Ever Boom Box Cassette Tape from Durham Lyrics
- Genre:Folk
- Year of Release:2022
Lyrics
The Boombox cassette tape released outta Durham has a hit song about my hometown
For the past 20 years, when I'd go out touring, the audience asks me if I know about the
first track on the Boombox cassette tape from Durham
The truth is I know it by heart, although I don't think of it as an influence, I'm fluent
in talking about how it's actually not
It 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 Boombox cassette tape reissued in Durham
Was yelled at the stage Friday night, like a thunderstorm pouring 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, hailing 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 of 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 Boombox cassette tape released at a Durham, will be here when we're in the ground