American is a wonderful place to live. The United States has a population of over 300 million and too many cites, towns and metroploises to count.Many of us in rural small towns such as myself feel simple. Many of these towns are filled with poverty and violence. Drugs, violence and thefts are part of everyday life in these lonesome wron down towns. This song talks about a town just like that and gives a frist person prespective on the effect it has on someone growing up there.
Smith Hill is a song by an American country, blues grunge band from Providence, Rhode Isalnd. The band...Deer Tick, the Album Born on Flag Day, the song Smith Hill.
"Elbow on the window seal, my head against the pain, I've seen so many grow and die, I forget most of there names" With this line we get an almost childlike image of a person sitting by a window, bored with his head against the pane, observering his outside world. Next the narrorator of the song talks about all the people his seen grow up around him, friends, family neighbors and how they have just disaperad through the years. All they were was a memory and now he can't even remember there names.
My favorte line of the song is "To the ones who made it out alive, its you I miss the most" Here this kids is stuck in this nowhere drug forsaken town with all his hopes and dreams in his head. Just sitting and thinking about the future, seeing all thses people knew once knew leave. Leave this town that holds his dreams locked, seeing so many others before him fail. But the ones who made it out, he'l miss there memory the most because he'll never see them again.
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