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Originally Posted by rhizingbines
Seems that I may be alone but I think this song is pretty awful.
Liked it on the first listen but I like it less with every listen. Something about it just doesn’t seem finished.
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I'm with you here. I liked the Farm Aid version D+T, but I think I really just liked the cool way Dave sings "do youwhoOOOoooh".
To me, it doesn't seem like there's much to the song itself. I don't think the lyrics flow very well. Dave is kind of talking them more than singing them. The music is uninspiring to me from the full band version I heard. Just seems kind of boring, honestly.
I heard Dave say on the recent live version that he wrote it about a friend of his from their youth who died recently. That's a nice tribute, but the "things we did and imagined we were doing as kids" lyrics are a little too literal for me on this one.
It sounds like this was written for a kids show or something. Even the song Dave wrote for the kids show (Sesame Street) had a more subtle touch on kid themes than this lol. Maybe Grover helped with that one.