Short Stories - Harry Chapin
Track List:
Short Stories
W.O.L.D.
Song for Myself
Song Man
Changes
They Call Her Easy
Mr. Tanner
Mail Order Annie
There’s A Lot Of Lonely People Tonight
Old College Avenue
Some new songs for me.
Song man, Changes, They Call Her Easy, There’s A Lot Of Lonely People Tonight, and Old College Avenue are all new songs for me. I want to say that I enjoyed listening to this album. But a lot of the songs are sad. W.O.L.D. deals with a guy who abandoned his family to pursue his dreams and when he is done chasing his dreams he finds his life has passed him by. Song For Myself is about depressing realization that the world is fucked. Changes reflect upon how feelings and thing change over time and understanding that perhaps the perceived changes are within the narrator. They Call Her Easy is a reflection upon our worldview and pondering about if people were to love one another by default instead of just looking out for themselves how much better would the world be. There’s A Lot OF Lonely People Tonight contemplates the default human feeling of lonely. Mr. Tanner is about a man who pursues his dreams of being a singer and is told by critics that he is not good at singing, this breaks him and he no longer sings for pleasure except when he is very isolated. So saying that this was enjoyable is a bit odd.
