Yr Pop Questions Answered PART ONE

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

I had an idea of doing a series of these? Let me know if it is unwelcome.

[Poll #907692]

(EDIT: I cannot edit the poll now but I meant the return train, w/ original boyfriend? Also plz to submit any other PRESSING POP QUESTIONS you can think of, LJ paid account has gone to my head)

Comments

[mcarratala.livejournal.com]

I don't know – if I'd come all the way from Kansas City (to wherever – Chicago or St Louis are the most obvious places to catch a train to, although you can go all the way to LA, still), I think I'd want to stop and see the sights. I may not have the romantic urgency of the characters in the song.
The position of the old boyfriend is the flip of the guy in the Box Tops' The Letter, whose girlfriend has decided she likes him after all, and he's so excited he's getting a plane because he ain't got time to catch a fast train.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Ha, now you've got me thinking of Frank Sinatra's Watertown LP, the climax of which is another great emotional drama involving a train.

Only this time it's a guy whose wife has left him (and their kids) and he's somehow got it into his head that she's coming back to him, and he even goes down to the station to meet the train she's supposedly arriving on. Only she never arrives: it was all a fantasy on his part.