12-06-2018, 09:05 PM
For years I've mumbled along to Smalltown, singing "It's a sad day, bourbons all around". Recently, I began to question myself. Is it sad "day" or sad "thing"? I listened a bit closer and it seemed quite clear to me that it was actually sad "thing" and that I've been wrong for years. I went to theHip.com to pull up the lyrics for verification and this is what I got:
Been to Reno
Drives an El Camino
Can you dig that style?
Hip canteen
You always make the scene
You're a crazy child
It's a sad thing
Bourbons all around
To stop that feeling when you're
Living
In a small town
You're long and lean
But things don't get you down
You're a top ten kingpin in the
Borders
Of your hometown
Can't get hip
You work the jobs I've quit
Can you dig that style?
Won't admit
You just don't give a shit
You're a crazy child
It's a sad day
Bourbons all around
To stop that feeling when you're
Living
In a small town
You're long and lean
But things don't get you down
You're a top ten kingpin in the
Borders
Of your hometown
Can't live to die-too easy
Why stick around
I want my life to please me
Not another small town hometown
Bringdown
Now, as chris tanz aptly pointed out, thehip.com is an "unmowed field". This is further evidence of that. These lyrics on the website are a mess. There is a chorus missing and too many children have gone crazy and not enough minds have gone wild. But there is a "sad day" in these lyrics. So I had to re-listen again and I'm pretty sure it's "thing" all three times it's sung. My CDs are buried in a box under the stairs in my basement so I'm wondering if anyone has easy access to their EP liner notes to determine whether it is indeed three "things" or if there is a "day" tossed in there.
And thank the Gord above that this forum continues so I can ramble on about "who gives a shit" Hip minutiae like this to five other people that might care, instead of boring my wife!
Been to Reno
Drives an El Camino
Can you dig that style?
Hip canteen
You always make the scene
You're a crazy child
It's a sad thing
Bourbons all around
To stop that feeling when you're
Living
In a small town
You're long and lean
But things don't get you down
You're a top ten kingpin in the
Borders
Of your hometown
Can't get hip
You work the jobs I've quit
Can you dig that style?
Won't admit
You just don't give a shit
You're a crazy child
It's a sad day
Bourbons all around
To stop that feeling when you're
Living
In a small town
You're long and lean
But things don't get you down
You're a top ten kingpin in the
Borders
Of your hometown
Can't live to die-too easy
Why stick around
I want my life to please me
Not another small town hometown
Bringdown
Now, as chris tanz aptly pointed out, thehip.com is an "unmowed field". This is further evidence of that. These lyrics on the website are a mess. There is a chorus missing and too many children have gone crazy and not enough minds have gone wild. But there is a "sad day" in these lyrics. So I had to re-listen again and I'm pretty sure it's "thing" all three times it's sung. My CDs are buried in a box under the stairs in my basement so I'm wondering if anyone has easy access to their EP liner notes to determine whether it is indeed three "things" or if there is a "day" tossed in there.
And thank the Gord above that this forum continues so I can ramble on about "who gives a shit" Hip minutiae like this to five other people that might care, instead of boring my wife!
