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A Teenage Hymn, Pt 2: Dragging Main (1964)

from PUSHBUTTON ROMANCE by Rich Arithmetic

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Further coming of age once you have your driver's license and spend every evening dragging up and down Main Street.

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A TEENAGE HYMN
by Richard Horton © Hortones, BMI

Part Two: Dragging Main (1964)

Up and down eight blocks of Main Street
Nightly rites of steel and glass
To see and hear and hope to be seen
As in their fathers’ cars they pass

Metal, moving altars, symbols
Acolytes in awkward space
Communal worship, pop-chart hymnals
Conscience clear with spring-like grace

At the stoplight brown rust Rambler
Idle caught in coughing choke
She sidles up with cautious candor
He shares his ciggie, lights her smoke

Back seat of Dad’s El Dorado
Auburn hair from English class
She likes his jokes, his false bravado
He like her legs, her spark, her sass

Eucharist by drive-in neon
He made a pledge, she paid a toll
She drank his cola with his class ring on
Their marriage bed was tuck-and-roll

Rolled-down window, rites of passage
A maiden voyage on teenage sea
A stain remains, writes Lust’s short message
Radio played “please, please me”

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from PUSHBUTTON ROMANCE, released February 23, 2024
LANCE MORGAN: Lead & Harmony Vocals
RICH ARITHMETIC: Lead & Harmony Vocals, Guitars, Organ, Bass, Drum programming

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Rich Arithmetic Bellingham, Washington

Rich Arithmetic serves up power pop, psych-pop, and folk-meets-surf-and-sand harmonies that "eliminate the gaps between the ‘60s, ‘80s and the 2020's" - Steve Stav, stevestav.com

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