Feb 20 Mix Tape

A general rule of thumb in my songwriting is that if it's written in the first person, it's not about me.  However, if it's written about someone else there's a good chance it is about me.  But like most rules in the English language, this isn't always true. 
The next song is both in 1st person and actually about me.   Somehow or another the word tape kept coming up as I was trying to generate ideas to write about.  I finally just followed it and found myself in the summers of say '96 - '98, though I think the stuff from this song was pretty much all '98.   It was just one of those summers that you get to have when you're younger when everything happens.  And I got all nostalgic so I tried to find something that kind of encapsulated the whole thing.   Nothing could of course but the mix tape comes pretty close.   

I was home from college
When I got it in the mail
We’d been talking music over AIM
Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell

And you made me a mix tape
You made me a mix tape

I went hiking with a friend
That morning we won tickets to the show
We camped up in the state Park
Got our sleeping bags stole

And we listened to that mix tape.
We listened to your mix tape.

You came out from Lake Erie
To visit Boston, Ma
I bought you flowers and met you at the gate
Next night you were my first kiss, in the dark and on the grass

And we listened to that mix tape.
We listened to your mix tape.