It's not a disappointment, exactly, but I came into the middle of Noah Kahan's "Stick Season" (2022) while driving and not knowing what the song was called, heard the title lines of the chorus as it's a season in the Styx and I saw your mom and she forgot that I exist, which made perfect sense by the rules of the Greek underworld. It turns out it's just autumn in New England; I am just the kind of audience who has something chime in their head at and I'm split in half, but that'll have to do and later realizes it was the last line of Housman's "He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?" With Housman, I can be reasonably confident it's an allusion to Aristophanes' speech in Plato's Symposium. I don't know that it's an allusion to Housman in Kahan. It's an extremely catchy hook, though.
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- 1: It's two in the afternoon and thirty-four degrees
- 2: Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone
- 3: Don't know me now, then you'll never know me later
- 4: I know you're waiting for me in secret places
- 5: Do you believe a person should be some kind of answer?
- 6: How do we sleep while our beds are burning?
- 7: But I was cruising Gawain in the mist
- 8: All of it's golden, my body is floating, I'm still alive
- 9: Why don't you ever let me love you?
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