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Electric Light Orchestra - Down Home Town Meaning

Album cover for Down Home Town album cover

Down Home Town Lyrics

The world outside don't like us much,

'Cos they ain't got our classy touch,

But they ain't good enough to breathe,

This towns good air we make 'em leave.



CHORUS:

But it's no, no, no, you really can't do that,

No, no, no,...

  1. anonymous
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    Jan 24th !⃝

    This song is about the hate Jeff Lynne and Stephen Joseph Woollam, whose name was incorrectly spelled on the band's first album, experienced for secretly working on music together after Woollam left the band. Face the Music was released not long after Woollam's death, and the background of the album cover shows pillars that look like the top of the Jurys Inn, the skyscraper where Woollam fell to his death. The chair on the album cover indicates the desire of justice for something that happened. ELO's Surrender, a song that was suspiciously not included on A New World Record, has guitar that sounds the same as the guitar in Down Home Town. The lyrics about a phone call in Surrender parallel the song Telephone Line, so these things all connect as part of story where Jeff missed and was kept apart from his good friend.


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