Old Men Play Songs About Aging and Loneliness While Young Folks Dance Whimsically: Somewhere Robert Herrick is Smiling or Grimacing
11.29.2022 — Somewhere, TN
Dave and I are heading down to Murphy NC to play at the Parson’s Pub! Good times… in the meantime, I was alerted to this live video posted from our show at the Surfside 7 in Fort Collins… what a fun night! The local band Spliff Tank opened… they were great, LOUD and had two drummers that shared a crash cymbal… what fun!
The video posted to YouTube is the song, “Boys in Trouble” a song I wrote after reading the Bob Mehr biography on the Replacements Trouble Boys. I focused on the idea that no matter how many times you shoot yourself in the foot… you can still move forward… sort of.
There is a bittersweetness to loneliness, too. The idea that “someday you’ll find yourself alone/waking up, staring at your phone” is more cautionary I suppose… that kind of, “blink and you’ll miss it” moment that we hear people jabber about when we were young… and maybe we didn't realize that time passing quickly phenomenon so much as being a thing… but now that we’re no longer young… we’re in the very position we were warned of. Irony is not dead. Yet.