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Transangelic Exodus, 2018
Written by Ezra Furman
Over a Velvet Underground-inspired pulsing cello line, a desperate, half-spoken, half-sung tale unwinds of star-crossed, small-town lovers. Both young people seem to come from dysfunctional homes with drunken parents, both acting up and getting into trouble. "I always knew I was bad / Always dreaming so they called me the Spaceman / You first kissed me in your parents' blue basement / I wanted you baby so bad." One goes to college and makes a new, better life; the narrator is left pining, not resentful but with nothing but memories fading like letters drawn in the sand. It's a bittersweet story song, clearly inspired by Springsteen's small-town dramas and Lou Reed's transgressive tales of the city.
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