The band returned for “I Always Lie to Strangers,” one of two tracks from his 2022 album “Strictly a One-Eyed Jack,” the tune arranged as a kind of cabaret blues number that delivered the today rare sight of a singer on stage smoking an actual cigarette. “Jack & Diane,” another of Mellencamp’s signature odes to small town life, was also done solo acoustic – with backing vocals by several of his young grandchildren, and eventually the entire theater on the a cappella break: “Oh, let it rock, let it roll, let the bible belt come and save my soul.” “Longest Day,” inspired by more of grandma’s wisdom – “You’re gonna find out real soon that life is short even in it’s longest days,” she told him once – added accordion and a second acoustic guitar to Mellencamp’s acoustic. It, too, featured a simple, direct message in its chorus: “All of these homeless, where do they come from? In this land of plenty, where nothing gets done.” “The Eyes of Portland,” was inspired by an encounter Mellencamp had with a young homeless woman in Oregon several years ago.
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Sink your teeth right through my bones, babyĪlso, when he says 'i ain't as green as you are young', it's because she still thinks he's just a young boy having fun and he's not ready to change his ways so quickly for her because he doesn't know about love, but he's just doesn't show on the outside that he does know enough to change quickly so he says that "isn't as green" on the inside "as she is young" saying that maybe if anything she's the one who is too young to understand love, so in a way he's taking the ball and saying he knows what to do with it and then throwing it back to her court to say you look pretty young yourself are you sure you know how to play ball, but at the same time he draws a parallel between the two of them, to tell her that they have something in common which is that they both look inexperienced on the outside, but they each know more than they let on, so maybe they are two of a kind and should be together for that reason, and he can't think of a more perfect match, so he doesn't care what it takes, how much hurting it takes, because he can only see himself truly happy in the end if he's with someone like him, who looks greener than they really are, because that's the only person who can really understand how he feels, because people probably look at her and treat her the same way they treat him, and he thinks if they are finally together, two of a kind, they can finally get over how people see them as greenhorns, because when people see them together, they will obviously think differently when they see how much they really know, after they see what they see them doing together.After a few more familiar tunes, including “Human Wheels” and another great feature of fiddler Lisa Germano on “Check It Out,” a short acoustic set delivered the other new tune.
Just trying to give myself a little bit of fun, yeah Lord knows there are things we can do, baby Now that I'm gettin' older, so much older
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