Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inspired by Athenian ruins, the stately arches and ivy covered walls of the Harvard Stadium call to mind the noble Greek virtues of balance and order...
...pain, pleasure, beauty, anger and, most of all, uncertainty. Consider some of these lyrics: "They're all laughing at your clothes/standing in the lunch line," and then "Face down in a stranger's tomb/didn't know you were dying/and you rise and you fall/and you wait for the call...
...call he is singing of is most likely the call of adulthood, a voice telling the uncertain adolescent protagonist what to do, where to go, who to become. Yet that call--as we all know--will never come, as there comes a point in each person's life when he or she must make that difficult call, all alone. Soul Asylum has managed to capture the teenage sense of loneliness, fear and desperation in this mature, strong song. It is hard not to appreciate "I Will Still Be Laughing," as it appeals to almost everyone's sense of alienation...
...long do you have to live somewhere in order to call it home? At least this summer, I'm calling Cambridge that; it wasn't an easy transition to make...
...still deserves the same privacy he would if he could be alone with his lawyer." And as Cohen points out, that?s only one stall tactic of many: "There?s really no limit to the ideas a clever lawyer can come up with." Well, they don?t call it the ?long national nightmare? for nothing...