January 9 - Solomon Revisited Revisited

Time for an odd thing to say: this is one of the most consciously "songy" of the songs so far. The repeated refrain of "I've got a radio" and the tight but coherent narrative break it away from the "sung poetry" of a lot of the cassette tape songs.

There's a particular anger in the vocals and the lyrics that are historically interesting as they feel like a contemporary version of what a lot of John's later songs were trying to recapture. The anger of youth, the lack of control, the iron grip on the small things that the singer can control.

He got a radio. We got a song.