It's the same, old song... but with a different meaning, since you been gone...

 

(The material was written as I cut grass one morning, my job circa 19-25 years old, a seasonal yard maintenance guy.  George W Bush, known as Dubya or Shrubya, was in the doldrums between his election and the 9/11 attacks in 2001.  I wore 15 dollar Walmart shoes, and 30 cent jersey gloves as I worked along, largely without a care in the world, but still with an eye forward to the potential of love in the future.  I had a special affinity for the 59 dollar Featherlite FL20 string trimmer I was tasked to use at work, and I would later go on to acquire a few for the family.)

(F)My name is Duane!(D)

(G)And I'm a fishing pole.

(F)My name is Duane!(D)

(G)And I got eyes 'a blue.

(The thing sounded like a slower version of "I Can't Explain" by the Who in their early days.  Back then I had two amps.  One was a Hondo 120x2 and the other was a hack of a GPX stereo, where I had spliced into RCA cables for the 8 track player, having opened the turntable top.  The baby was deluxe for its time, having that 8 track deck, a turntable, and even a new-fangled cassette interface.)

I recall well, that I worked three days a week and went months with a hole in my shoe, with no extra to buy a replacement pair of Walmart sneaks, and that for the princely sum of 29 dollars.  I had locked into a pattern of renting DVDs on payday, and getting a five dollar lunch special of full wings and fried rice from the local Chinese take-out.

Most of that is defunct now, and the big grocery store that was next to the Chinese take-out.  The video store gone, along with the 1.00 rentals for three days.  In fact, in the closeout of the video store, I spent a good bit on buying the rental copies of some of my favorite rents, among them the Dawn of the Dead 1978 Original Cut and Alexandre Aja's Haute Tension and Lucio Fulci's Zombie.  That video store had accomplished all that, put soft-core porn in the horror section too, and had a box set of the many faces of spaghetti western anti-hero Sabata.

I bought the Phantom Menace the day it came out on home video, ditto Attack of the Clones. 

(F)My name is Duane!(D)

(E)I'm uh mess with you.